Fwd: adopt a word!

[Benjamin Barrett]

Begin forwarded message:

>
> By DAN RESTIONE @ KIRO Radio
> Save the seals, save the whales, but what about saving the words?
>
> "Crassulent or Jobler." I bet you haven't heard those recently and
> that worries the folks at Oxford University, who's press comes out
> with the Holy Bible of words: the Oxford English Dictionary.
>
> Every year, hundreds of seldom used, but very cool words, are
> dropped from dictionaries, so Oxford has started the "Save the
> Words" campaign.
>
> All you have to do is sign on to savethewords.org and pick a poor,
> little endangered word, adopt it, and pledge to work it into
> everyday conversation as much as you can. You even get a certificate
> of adoption and you can order a t-shirt with your word child on it.
>
> I'm now the proud father of "crassulent," which means fat and as you
> see, I've used it twice already.

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