Found word of the day: ILOOPPRS

PROPOLIS a resinous substance used as cement by bees (pl. -LISES)

So I'm currently down in Cape Hatteras, NC with my brother and dad- and I borrowed my brother's Trader Joe brand toothpaste. All I have to say is, I like fennel in sausage, but not in toothpaste. Kevin hates it, too, but refuses to throw it away, so I figured I'd help him speed up the tube-emptying process.

I also found an amusing 'scrabble word-sighting' on a bathroom stall at the local Food Lion, which I may or may not post before I leave on Wednesday. Stay tuned.

ADHIMRS

Here's a question: what do ASYNDETA, NEWEL, and MIDRASH have in common?
Answer: nothing! Absolutely nothing!

Well, except that these are a few words which have caught my eye in the past month or so. The reason being that I stumbled across them more than once in that period of time, which I think is unusual. The first one I noticed was missed by two livejournal users that I follow (in their annotated games); the second was used in two different paperbacks I read (Lee Child and Stephen King), and the third has a slightly longer anecdote to go along with it:

A friend of ours asked me a few weeks ago if I had ever heard of 'Nachshon', a character who is said to have been the first to enter the Red Sea when it was parted back in the Old Testament days.
Let me step back for a minute- I consider myself a 'recovering evangelical'- we moved out to western mass 5 years ago to start a church (among other reasons) and since then my views on the American version of christianity have changed quite radically. I used to be pretty politically conservative and have swung mostly in the other direction in that respect, too. So now I don't go to church or really read the bible or any of that stuff. Maybe just a product of my new liberal western mass environment. But anyways, for some reason people still see me as a bible-reading type of guy (even when I don't mention any of my background to them.)
I told her I had never heard of him, and it turns out that he is only mentioned in the MIDRASH (an early Jewish interpretation of a biblical text), which is why I never heard of him. And then today I was playing scrabble on my cellphone and the computer played MIDRASH/ S(QUIRE), and I said, 'It's a sign from God!' Just kidding.

of note: plural is MIDRASHIM, MIDRASHOT or MIDRASHOTH, and the anagram is DIRHAMS, a monetary unit (pl.) of Morocco.

One word anagram quiz

I totally stole this idea from jigsawn over on livejournal, check out his blog for other fun quizzes and posts.

AADINORT

Pop Quiz

There are only two TWL words that end in -UTIC.

Let me revise that. There are only two that are 8 letters or less. (Actually, they are both 8s.)

Do you know them?

Somehow I've managed to stumble across both of them in the last month.

The first one may be the coolest word I've learned since UINTAITE.

First one to post the answer in a comment wins.

Found Word of the Day

AREPA a cornmeal cake

anagram is
PARAE plural of
PARA a woman's status regarding the bearing of offspring (related to PUERPERA?)

here's a simple recipe in case you're curious:

http://www.whats4eats.com/breads/arepas-recipe

Scrabble Trickster annotated game

Just think of the possibilities..

http://www.cross-tables.com/annotated.php?u=5867#0

Alternate spellings to 'common' bingos, revisited

The original post is here.

You would think that after playing competetive scrabble for the last few years and studying high probability bingos, that I would know that

PTISAN is another way of spelling TISANE.

But then, I've also been mispronouncing it for the last three years.  Of course, listeners to the podcast won't find this suprising. At all.