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Preliminaries
Thanks to everybody for participating in our Connecting Words project. When Joanna and I put this together, we weren’t exactly sure what we were trying to accomplish other than to have fun and strike up a few new conversations.

Well, I don’t know if Connecting Words accomplished anything, but we have more than 20 contributions. We have a most entertaining collection of family phrases, local slang, family slang, coined words, meaningful words, meaningless words, odd words, and hilarious words.

Reading all these, I’ve come to the conclusion you can learn a lot about people from the words they favor. I think I’ve gotten to know a few people, learned plenty of awesome words, and participated in several enjoyable conversations. Joanna and I hope you have, too!

Grand Prize Winner!
But enough preliminaries. One participant was lucky enough to win their choice of books (except “Tested Sentences that Sell”) from Word Sell’s Favorite Business Book list. (BTW, if anybody has a book to add, comment on that post and I’ll add it to the list with a link to your blog.)

The lucky winner, drawn at random, is …

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Geranium Cat! Congratulations! Please contact me with your selection and shipping information, and I will order your book posthaste.

Collected Connected Posts
J. Eric Potter wrote about Star Trek. Trekkies have a language all their own.

Joanna Young, project co-sponsor, put on her party pants and puzzled over a Klondike Bar. Brava!

Brad Shorr (me), project co-sponsor, had but one connecting word for this project – rubbish!

Deb gave our project a big boost with a little (but well positioned) blurb. Thank you!

Deb followed with an exploration of grembling, goleor, and lammies. Go put that in your duffel bag!


Deb again with a connecting word dialog about holy days.

Rhinoa writes about British slang, one of my favorite topics. No bloody rubbish here.

Guatami Tripathy sparked an awesome conversation by listing a few bouncy conversational phrases.

Geranium Cat mused about Scottish dialect. Stop shoogling about, and read it!

Alice contributed some beautylicious portmanteau words. Fantabulous.

Mervi, another sci-fi fan, draws on the genre’s rich language for curse words. Stellar idea!

Chris put together one great list of quirky words and expressions, by!

Margaret contributed three AWESOME words – Mither, Mardy, and Pooter. Sounds like a law firm, doesn’t it?

Syaffolee is fond of “scintillating”, as am I. Howard Cosell used that word on Monday Night Football about a hundred years ago and it has fascinated me ever since.

Puss Reboots, yet another sci-fi fan, concentrated on a nifty word coined by sci-fi great Philip K. Dick, kipple. Know what it means?

Christine takes us, logically enough, from kipple to piffle.

Matt started a conversation livelier than a bag of cats.

Lisa explained her family shorthand in a post that leaves you hankerin’ for more.

Raidergirl wrote a post you can really fill your gob on. Know what I mean?

Lesley explored his her wonderful Australian slang, explaining among other things that daggy means naff. All I can say is, Lesley, if you come to America, don’t call anybody an overhead dick-dick.

Softdrink served up several amusing phrases, “Bob’s your uncle” being one of my project favorites.

Enna likes one of my favorite Words for Nerds words, peripatetic. Any friend of that word is a friend of mine!

Fajrdrako appeared to be adding some class to this project by citing a venerable Latin phrase, but he wound up seizing the dog. Still, his post was far from otiose.


Trisha wrote a wicked clever post about Vermont-isms, including a word Softdrink might like – bubbler.

Robert Hruzek, waxed eloquent (as always) on his four favorite phrases of all time.

Again, Joanna and I thank each of you for your time and contribution!

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