Awesome, Awful ... Awe-striking?

[Neal Whitman]

On Visual Thesaurus (for suscribers), a comparative history of both
"awesome" and "awful":
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/dictionary/2311/

On the blog, a tangential topic: What's with "awe-striking", the
present-participial counterpart to "awe-struck"?
http://literalminded.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/when-awe-strikes/

Neal

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