(singing herself to sleep at naptime)

"tickle, tickle, little star, how I wonder ...how I wonder...
up above the world I'm high...tickle tickle on the back,
dada, tickle me a guy,
tickle tickle little star,
how I wonder how a wuh."

Also, I found a site that makes nifty graphics out of text using word frequency, and I transcribed what she said ( Read more... )

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

English words of Indian origin; some surprises: juggernaut, bungalow, cushy, loot.

How Rock Band Saved My Marriage

Your extensive vocabulary earns rice for the needy. Linked by several friends. Actually has words I haven't heard of!

The Welsh word for microwave is popty ping -- literally "oven that goes ping." It's used as a verb, too, so that you say, The Welsh rugby (cricket, soccer, hockey, hurling) team was Popty Pinged by Ireland at Croke Park yesterday. Thank you, wordweaverlynn, for this important vocabulary update.

Picture of the photographer's horse and raven. Said photographer also has a camel, apparently.

A Gentlemen's Duel--an animated short, linked by Neil Gaiman. [Sorry--this has been taken down since I posted it]

Disgruntled lexicographer humor.

Random, almost always pronounceable, English words. Thanks, clemtaur.

Language game--unfortunately, while level 1 was nothing at all and level 2 was old hat, level 3 is baffling me.

[Edit: okay, figured out what they wanted. Silly linguists.]

[Edit: puzzling over level 8 now.]

Thanks to ozarque.

ivolucien found this. Very similar to the Visual Thesaurus, but graphically simpler and free.

slacktivist aptly redefines sodomy from its Biblical roots. Additional post on immigration policy here.