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2026 6

  1. Five Words from … Vanishing Fleece
  2. Five Words from … Say Nothing
  3. Five Words from … Survivor Injustice
  4. (Quite a few more than) Five Words from … A Questionable Shape
  5. Five Words from … Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History
  6. Five Words from … The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper

2025 3

  1. Five words from … Mood Machine
  2. Five words from … Braiding Sweetgrass
  3. Five Words From … Otter Country

2024 9

  1. Five Words From … What the Chicken Knows: A New Appreciation of the World’s Most Familiar Bird
  2. Five Words From … AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
  3. Five Words From … More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for Enough by Emma Specter
  4. Five Words From … How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World by Deb Chachra
  5. Five Words From … Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns
  6. Five Words From … There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib
  7. Five Words From … White Supremacy is All Around by Dr. Akilah Cadet
  8. Five Words From … Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz
  9. Five Words From … Thinking with Your Hands by Susan Goldin-Meadow

2023 1

  1. Five Words From … Worn, by Sofi Thanhauser

2022 4

  1. Beyond Beowulf: Q&A with Hana Videen, author of The Wordhord
  2. Introducing LEXICON LUNACY 2022!
  3. Eye on the Hog! Nine of our Favorite Winter Olympics Words
  4. Five Words From … Matrix, by Lauren Groff

2021 5

  1. The Wordnik 2021 Gift Guide for Word Lovers
  2. To Arrakis and Beyond: The Language of Dune
  3. Tasty Morsels from Groovy Hubs: Our Favorite Words from Succession
  4. Q&A with Arika Okrent, author of Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don’t Rhyme—and Other Oddities of the English Language
  5. Soap Opera Slang: From Horses to K-Dramas

2020 20

  1. Words on the Grift: Our Favorite Ways of Saying ‘Con Artist’
  2. Happy National Cookie Day! Sink Your Teeth into Six Cookie Idioms
  3. Happy St. Andrew’s Day! 7 Bonnie Scots Words to Use More Often
  4. Happy National Homemade Bread Day! Celebrate with Seven Slices of Baking Lingo
  5. These Sayings are the Cat’s Meow: Our Favorite Feline Phrases and Idioms
  6. Twitchers, Megas, and Life Lists: A Brief Guide to Birdwatching Lingo
  7. Happy World Elephant Day! Celebrate with Seven Elephant-Related Words and Phrases
  8. A Brief History of ‘Dollar’ Words
  9. Happy National Lighthouse Day! Luminous Lighthouse Lingo
  10. The Luscious Language of Ice Cream
  11. Happy International Kissing Day! Kiss Up to These ‘Kissing’ Words
  12. A Brief History of the Language of Fireworks
  13. Summertime and the Wording Is Easy: Five Fiery Summer Words and Their Origins
  14. In Memoriam: Quentin M. Sullivan
  15. Five words from … The Trespasser , by Tana French
  16. Happy Administrative Professionals’ Day! 11 Indispensable Assistant Words
  17. Cheese, Glorious Cheese Idioms! Happy National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day
  18. Happy National Cocktail Day! A Brief Guide to Cocktail Terms
  19. Five words from … Aurora , by Kim Stanley Robinson
  20. Five words from … The Peripheral , by William Gibson

2019 1

  1. 10 Awesome Insults That Are Available for Adoption

2018 22

  1. Wunderbar! German Loanwords You Can Still Adopt
  2. The 10 Coolest Words We Can’t Believe No One Has Adopted
  3. Word Buzz Wednesday: nationalist, cannibal morph, sprezzatura
  4. Happy Dictionary Day! Time to Show the Dictionary Love
  5. Damon Runyon: Word ‘Moxie’ ‘In Spades’
  6. Word Buzz Wednesday: terminal buzz, zunda, death comet
  7. September Food Word Origins: macadamia nut, Monte Cristo sandwich, cherries jubilee
  8. Word Buzz Wednesday: cheese tea, Kushner loophole, pickleball
  9. Five Jazzy Words from F. Scott Fitzgerald
  10. Word Buzz Wednesday: Waffle House Index, Scunthorpe problem, poshtel
  11. James Fenimore Cooper: An A No. 1 Word Coiner
  12. Word Buzz Wednesday: lodestar, shadow banning, sitzfleisch
  13. Word Buzz Wednesday: logo soup, sando, posca
  14. August Food Word Origins: s’mores, sponge-cake, and chop suey
  15. Word Buzz Wednesday: props, rosehip neuron, pool spray
  16. Word Buzz Wednesday: bleisure, vomit fraud, pronkstilleven
  17. It’s official! Wordnik is now a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit!
  18. Word Buzz Wednesday: deepfake, shimming, gluggaveður
  19. 10 English Words with Surprising Chinese Origins
  20. Word Buzz Wednesday: plogging, Mongee banana, Holdo Maneuver
  21. Word Buzz Wednesday: bomb cyclone, koselig, shitpost
  22. Word Buzz Wednesday: Santa Claus rally, a dog’s breakfast, lie doggo

2017 51

  1. Word Buzz Wednesday: youthquake, man flu, Jolabokaflod
  2. Word Buzz Wednesday: bonjour hi, ultra violet, hostile architecture
  3. Word Buzz Wednesday: sontaku, kwaussie, irruption
  4. Word Buzz Wednesday: full understand, haikyoist, purposeful delay
  5. Word Buzz Wednesday: kleptopredation, Paradise Papers, gardening leave
  6. The language of gossip
  7. Word Buzz Wednesday: Pittsburgh potty, akiya, devil’s venom
  8. Word Buzz Wednesday: ikigai, Mahlzeit, Amazon effect
  9. Word Buzz Wednesday: dostadning, pard, four-way handshake
  10. Word Buzz Wednesday: pseudoaddiction, Twinkie defense, gastfreundschaft
  11. Word Buzz Wednesday: mood repair, CSI effect, 500-year storm
  12. Word Buzz Wednesday: breeching ceremony, 386 generation, grave-casual
  13. Word Buzz Wednesday: hapax, sobremesa, coward’s castle
  14. Word Buzz Wednesday: hurricane hole, door stacking, dragon booger
  15. Word Buzz Wednesday: milkshake duck, soccer baseball, Westermarck effect
  16. Game of Words: Our 11 Favorites from ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7
  17. Mutts, Mongrels, and Curs: 12 Regional Slang Terms
  18. Word Buzz Wednesday: diamond ring effect, Zaltair hoax, 99
  19. Word Buzz Wednesday: mamihlapinatapai, extra, antifa
  20. Word Buzz Wednesday: honjok, Shepard tone, Wizard of Oz experiment
  21. The language of sneakers
  22. Word Buzz Wednesday: shiok, double Dutch, shrinkflation
  23. Word Buzz Wednesday: skinny repeal, extreme commuting, monster parent
  24. Word Buzz Wednesday: o-fer, fontgate, omurice
  25. Word Buzz Wednesday: craftivism, bass face, fawn response
  26. Our Favorite Eponyms: 10 Common Words Named After People
  27. Word Buzz Wednesday: shisa kanko, monkey dumpling, Canadian Dainty
  28. Word Buzz Wednesday: vote-a-rama, totalism, mistress dispeller
  29. The language of colors
  30. Word Buzz Wednesday: capsule wardrobe, spoofing, rush-grumble
  31. Word Buzz Wednesday: hung parliament, les Rosbifs, devil’s dandruff
  32. Word Buzz Wednesday: marocain, banana bag, bioblitz
  33. Words from Walt Whitman: More Than Barbaric Yawps
  34. Word Buzz Wednesday: side splash, Greek foot, yuck factor
  35. Word Buzz Wednesday: Jante, Forer effect, aplatanada
  36. Word Buzz Wednesday: poudre de perlimpinpin, crotilla, Q
  37. 8 Old-Timey Names for a Soft Drink
  38. Word Buzz Wednesday: snap election, Diaosi, hundslappadrifa
  39. Word Buzz Wednesday: reaccommodate, pingo, maximalism
  40. Word Buzz Wednesday: nuclear option, Dutch Harbor pigeons, mizu
  41. Word Buzz Wednesday: asperitas, rooftoppers, uppgivenhetssyndrom
  42. The Words of Washington Irving
  43. Word Buzz Wednesday: da kine, brick rustling, Kalsarikännit
  44. The language of instant noodles
  45. Word Buzz Wednesday: Reichstag fire, Dirty Thursday, pink noise
  46. 18 Linguistic (And Literal) Animal Blends
  47. Word Buzz Wednesday: pocket veto, gacha, cake culture
  48. Word Buzz Wednesday: lagom, inemuri, Harperite
  49. The Year of the Rooster words
  50. Word Buzz Wednesday: kompromat, tori-tetsu, smound
  51. Word Buzz Wednesday: nduja, democracy sausage, Ge You slouch

2016 60

  1. Best of Word Buzz Wednesday 2016
  2. What’s happening at Wordnik: Dating Advice, word nerdy gifts, PubWest 2017
  3. Word Buzz Wednesday: reindeer rule, balikbayan, koumpounophobia
  4. A close look at some “cozy” words
  5. Word Buzz Wednesday: post-truth, BROTUS, Muism
  6. Word Buzz Wednesday: Calexit, bellwether, moon illusion
  7. Word Buzz Wednesday: the Dollies, the lipstick effect, su filindeu
  8. Word Buzz Wednesday: hygge, king tide, Trumpkin
  9. Welcome to the Internet, Green’s Dictionary of Slang!
  10. Word Buzz Wednesday: chaohuan, meflection, neophobic
  11. The Oxford Roald Dahl, an “extra-usual” dictionary: Talking with Dr. Susan Rennie
  12. Word Buzz Wednesday: adulting, work martyr, trolley problem
  13. A ‘Basket of Deplorables’: Exploring the origins
  14. Word Buzz Wednesday: craic, dark triad, repechage
  15. Word Buzz Wednesday: stochastic terrorism, jinji ido, bomb pulse
  16. Word Buzz Wednesday: express kidnapping, dark social, Jedi phenomenon
  17. Word Buzz Wednesday: Biles, qubit, trumpery
  18. The language of roller coasters
  19. Word Buzz Wednesday: yuru-kyara, scolding, strange loop
  20. Word Buzz Wednesday: biohybrid, hyperuniformity, corn sweat
  21. Word Buzz Wednesday: aerotropolis, ballhawking, pork chop island
  22. Word Buzz Wednesday: bow shock, bloody code, Trump cards
  23. Word Buzz Wednesday: regrexit, skins gambling, brunchfast
  24. Game of Words: Our 11 Favorites from ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6
  25. Hail to the ‘Veep’: Our 10 Favorite Words of Season 5
  26. Wordnik News: TIME, PyCon, BBC
  27. Word Buzz Wednesday: gaokao nanny; Ophiohamus georgemartini; rope-a-dope
  28. Word Buzz Wednesday: bicycle face, dark factory, ghost gun
  29. Word Buzz Wednesday: fyrirtækjagripdeildir, graver, Karman line
  30. Word Buzz Wednesday: 9/9/6, extreme beer movement, yokozuna
  31. Coffee Talk: Regional Idioms to Describe Coffee
  32. Word Buzz Wednesday: Cats Wednesday, sandwich class, Web brutalism
  33. Word Buzz Wednesday: Asian pivot, party raiding, Shermanesque
  34. Word Buzz Wednesday: Becky, Dunbar layers, woonerf
  35. Word Buzz Wednesday: megacity, Philadelphia lean, superfunkycalifragisexy
  36. Word Buzz Wednesday: farb, Hummers, war-driving
  37. What’s Happening at Wordnik: Word gamers, Wordnik API and bots, T-shirts
  38. Word Buzz Wednesday: birrangbirrang, Hello Girl, wishful Amish
  39. Wordnik’s Most Favorited Words (So Far)
  40. Word Buzz Wednesday: disease mongering; the Not Face; jawn
  41. Word Buzz Wednesday: bad boy clause, Polari, shock breakout
  42. 8 Old-Timey Words for ‘Doctor’
  43. Word Buzz Wednesday: fika, graveyard orbit, jungle primary
  44. Word Buzz Wednesday: ego depletion, olm, Witzelsucht
  45. Word Buzz Wednesday: geographic profiling, gridgate, helicopter money
  46. ‘Downton Abbey’ Takes the Biscuit: Our Favorite Words of Season 6
  47. Word Buzz Wednesday: consistent universe, novelty bonus, secretary problem
  48. 10 Ultra-Violent Slang Terms from ‘A Clockwork Orange’
  49. Word Buzz Wednesday: bugging; neurogastronomy; winterspreading
  50. Word Buzz Wednesday: bama, bunnygate, neurothriller
  51. What’s Happening with Wordnik: News and Events
  52. All the Presidents’ Words: 11 Words from U.S. Presidents
  53. Word Buzz Wednesday: fishball revolution, hypercapnia, wazzock
  54. Word Buzz Wednesday: caucus; coprolite; ZomBee
  55. Word Buzz Wednesday: Gaian bottleneck, Janus point, nobble
  56. Word Buzz Wednesday: Akrasia effect, callosities, spermbots
  57. Word Buzz Wednesday: ammosexual, Bowie bonds, super-encounterer
  58. Advertising at Wordnik
  59. Word Buzz Wednesday: functional fixedness, hypnosedation, telehaptic
  60. Our Most Popular Posts of 2015

2015 88

  1. Best of Word Buzz Wednesday 2015
  2. Word Buzz Wednesday: bean to bar; digital dementia; schlonged
  3. Word Buzz Wednesday: DUSTWUN, geocryologist, popcorn lung
  4. 10 Splendid Words About Snow
  5. Word Buzz Wednesday: bakugai, deadnaming, pishing
  6. The Wordnik 2015 Word Nerd Gift Guide
  7. A Brief History of Cotton Candy Names
  8. Word Buzz Wednesday: Centurion, fleurdeliser, piecaken
  9. Word Buzz Wednesday: Duchenne smile, narwhal, variable reward
  10. Word Buzz Wednesday: cobot, Pastafarian, twilight divorce
  11. The Language of Origami
  12. Word Buzz Wednesday: no-maj, Mizzou, undercard
  13. The Name Game: Mark Skoultchi of Catchword
  14. Word Buzz Wednesday: neuropolitics, polyandry, yaoi
  15. NaNoWriMo Inspiration: Wordnik Words of the Day
  16. Word Buzz Wednesday: dollarydoo, smol, vampire stars
  17. The Rime of a Romantic Poet: 10 Words Coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  18. Word Buzz Wednesday: hypnopaedia, phubbing, pubco
  19. How to Celebrate Dictionary Day
  20. Word Buzz Wednesday: becomer, fuerdai, shoaling
  21. And now a Word of the Day from our sponsor
  22. Why That Word: Adopters reveal why they chose their words
  23. Word Buzz Wednesday: defeat device, kaiten-zushi, stralimitata
  24. A brief history of lavatory language
  25. Word Buzz Wednesday: flow theory, piggate, Slamboni
  26. Word Buzz Wednesday: fetal microchimerism, Frankenvirus, Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
  27. Kicking off our Kickstarter: Let the word hunt begin!
  28. Word Buzz Wednesday: Denali, gadget allergy, superhenge
  29. Word Buzz Wednesday: altricial, epigenetic inheritance, shade balls
  30. Word Buzz Wednesday: Amabot, invisible app, narco sub
  31. Word Buzz Wednesday: e-vent, makeup tax, Perseids
  32. 8 Great Walter Scott Words
  33. Word Buzz Wednesday: fromagicide, merkeln, toxic gumbo
  34. Word Buzz Wednesday: Beckham effect, blue moon, lala company
  35. Herman Melville: A Whale of a Lexicon
  36. Word Buzz Wednesday: echoborg, facekini, speedcubing
  37. George Bernard Shaw: 10 Shavian Words
  38. Word Buzz Wednesday: buckyball, pentaquark, thermopolia
  39. For Whom the Words Toll: 10 Terms Coined by Ernest Hemingway
  40. Word Buzz Wednesday: Godzilla El Niño, lek, velfie
  41. Word Buzz Wednesday: body woman, ikemen, litefeet
  42. Philanthropy’s Kindly Origins: A Conversation with Ruth Ann Harnisch
  43. Word Buzz Wednesday: Night Witches; putsch; super-big
  44. Word Buzz Wednesday: adorabilis, Brotox, symmetrization
  45. Wordnik at ALA San Francisco
  46. Word Buzz Wednesday: Cat Dad, champing, yuccies
  47. Game of Words: Our 14 Favorite Words from ‘Game of Thrones,’ Season 5
  48. A Glossary of ‘Veep’: Our 10 Favorite Words
  49. Word Buzz Wednesday: anandamide, giant weta, ‘Wild’ effect
  50. 10 Fantastic Fog Words
  51. Word Buzz Wednesday: dementor wasp, Googie architecture, sympathectomy
  52. Wordniks Meet Up
  53. Are you a #wordnerd or a #languagegeek?
  54. Word Buzz Wednesday: bottom rocker, Quiverfull, wife bonus
  55. Surf Words Are Up! The Language of Surfing
  56. Word Buzz Wednesday: black spider memos, Hollywood model, teledildonics
  57. One for the Road: The Words of ‘Mad Men,’ A Final Roundup
  58. Word Buzz Wednesday: ajockalypse; rui-katsu; sumptuary law
  59. Word Buzz Wednesday: bookface, dadbod, frexting
  60. Adopt a Mother’s Day Word
  61. Word Buzz Wednesday: mobilegeddon; Nipyata; Poptarko
  62. Word Buzz Wednesday: Hodor-ing, haterbragging, hater-cricketing
  63. Word Buzz Wednesday: Bone Wars; Churchillian Drift; Easterlin paradox
  64. 5 Cherry Blossom Terms, Translated
  65. Word Buzz Wednesday: cord-never, kayfabe, sneakerhead
  66. Word Buzz Wednesday: ili pika; mukbang; telomere
  67. The Language of Taste
  68. Orphan Words: Let the Bidding Wars Begin!
  69. Word Buzz Wednesday: Cholliwood, kiss squeak, Kiwi collier
  70. Word Buzz Wednesday: chemesthetic; Glances™; warrior gene
  71. 12 Wonderful Words from TED
  72. ‘Community’ Soup: 12 Best Words So Far
  73. Word Buzz Wednesday: Big Pizza, flying donkeys, Spocking
  74. Word Buzz Wednesday: micro-punctuation, Purkinje effect, whale fall
  75. Adopt-a-Word Un-Birthday Sale
  76. Word Buzz Wednesday: da sao chu; hole punch cloud; jigaboo
  77. Like billy-o! Our Favorite Words of Downton Abbey, Season 5
  78. Word Buzz Wednesday: Beck’ed, Brownbacking, measles party
  79. Happy Mardi Gras! Everyone Loves Parade Words
  80. The Best of Jon Stewart Words
  81. Word Buzz Wednesday: impression management; omspreading; vaccine delayer
  82. Word Buzz Wednesday: bombogenesis, the Starbucks effect, supertweet
  83. Word Buzz Wednesday: herd immunity, sitzpinkler, spornosexual
  84. The Language of Convenience Stores
  85. Word Buzz Wednesday: altcoin, deflategate, tsundoku
  86. Congratulations! It’s a Word!
  87. Word Buzz Wednesday: bye Felicia; datasexual; manslamming
  88. Word Buzz Wednesday: drifted virus, flat white, Operation Death Eaters

2014 29

  1. Word Buzz Wednesday: Columbusing, dark web, kleptothermy
  2. Holiday Food Words: Eggnog, A Riot of a Word
  3. Word Buzz Wednesday: cutester, manspreading, shirtfront
  4. Holiday Food Words: Panettone (Not Bread of Toni)
  5. Holiday Food Words: Dundee Cake, Not Just Any Fruitcake
  6. Holiday Food Words: The Darling ‘Clementine’
  7. Word Buzz Wednesday: hellastorm, nut rage, Strange Fruit
  8. Word Buzz Wednesday: broken windows, patch and pray, upstreaming
  9. Word Buzz Wednesday: demon, digital nudist, emotional support pig
  10. Airport Lingo: 10 Terms for Your Next Trip
  11. Word Buzz Wednesday: ay up me duck, thundersnow, vape
  12. Word Buzz Wednesday: beat-deaf, Pointergate, shirtstorm
  13. Word Buzz Wednesday: club apple, lumbersexual, Singles Day
  14. 10 Serious-Sounding Medical Conditions That Aren’t So Serious
  15. Boardwalk Empire: Our Favorite Words from the Final Season
  16. Wordnik is becoming a not-for-profit!
  17. 10 Unusual Nature Words We Should Use More Often
  18. 12 Favorite World Cup Words
  19. The Words of ‘Game of Thrones,’ Season 4
  20. The Words of ‘Mad Men’: brunch, the four Ps, Mary Wells
  21. The Reverb App, Now Available for the iPhone!
  22. 10 Phrases That Come from Horse Racing
  23. The Selfie Variations
  24. The Reverb App: Now Even More Collection-y
  25. Heathers, Much? Our 7 Favorite Slang Terms from ‘Heathers’
  26. New Baby Buggy: When a Thing Isn’t “A Thing”
  27. Sochi Slang: Our Favorite Winter Olympic Lingo
  28. Language Blog Roundup: Amiri Baraka, words of the year, Satan’s bracelets
  29. Language Blog Roundup: WOTY news, banished words, mooing with an accent

2013 114

  1. Best of Word Soup 2013
  2. Best of Language Blog Roundup 2013
  3. Our Most Popular Posts of 2013
  4. Language Blog Roundup: WOTY news, ’tis, shelfies
  5. 8 Words from Mark Twain
  6. Language Blog Roundup: Nelson Mandela, all caps, dalek
  7. Language Blog Roundup: Doris Lessing, selfie, because
  8. The Words of George Eliot
  9. App-propos: The Reverb App
  10. Words of Boardwalk Empire
  11. Language Blog Roundup: dude, Victorian slang, shaming and mansplaining
  12. Language Blog Roundup: Oscar Hijuelos, Alice Munro, an open letter
  13. Celebrating Ada Lovelace: Our Favorite Hacker Slang
  14. Witchy Words
  15. Language Blog Roundup: Tom Clancy, fauxlibuster, Banned Books Week
  16. Have an A1 day!: Our Favorite Words from Breaking Bad
  17. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of September 16, 2013
  18. Language Blog Roundup: Friends, kill the apostrophe, James Franco
  19. Sailor Sayings: 12 Common Words with Nautical Origins
  20. A Brief History of Newspaper Lingo
  21. Goodbye to the Twoosh
  22. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of September 9, 2013
  23. Fo Shizzle My Chizzle: Our Favorite -izzle Words
  24. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of September 2, 2013
  25. Language Blog Roundup: Seamus Heaney, language peevers, when frogs grow hair
  26. English Words with Welsh Origins
  27. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of August 26, 2013
  28. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of August 19, 2013
  29. Language Blog Roundup: Elmore Leonard, literally, fatberg
  30. Come Fly With Me: 9 Common Words with Aviation Origins
  31. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of August 12, 2013
  32. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of August 5, 2013
  33. We Like Big Back-Formations
  34. Language Blog Roundup: Grimm linguist, youse, kerfuffle
  35. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of July 29, 2013
  36. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of July 22, 2013
  37. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: royal baby language, JK Rowling revealed, calf’s head hash
  38. Ode.La: Making Writing Fun Again
  39. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of July 15, 2013
  40. A Brief History of Yippee-Ki-Yay
  41. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of July 8, 2013
  42. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: cracker, Ћ, giant Mr. Darcy
  43. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge —Week of July 1, 2013
  44. Word Soup Wednesday: anxiet, tickety-boo, truthinews
  45. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of June 24, 2013
  46. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: passings, weird spelling, cocktail names
  47. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of June 17, 2013
  48. Mad Men Soup: 15 Groovy Words From Season 6
  49. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of June 10, 2013
  50. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: dialect maps, geek vs nerd, cronuts
  51. The Words of Fanny Burney
  52. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of June 3, 2013
  53. Eight Surprising Words From Portuguese
  54. Throne Soup: Our Favorite Words from ‘Game of Thrones’
  55. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: spelling bee, swearing, French kiss
  56. Spelling Confessions: Words We Still Can’t Spell
  57. Word Soup Wednesday: l’affaire est ketchup, Glühenvolk, tyromancy
  58. Office Soup: Our Favorite Words from ‘The Office,’ Farewell Season
  59. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of May 6, 2013
  60. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: The Great Gatsby, really old words, Dothraki
  61. The Language of the 1920s: More Than the Bee’s Knees
  62. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of April 29, 2013
  63. The Kentucky Derby: It’s All About the Hats
  64. Word Soup Wednesday: blood eagle, gestictionary, low riding
  65. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of April 22, 2013
  66. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Boston, Shakespeare, ‘slash’ as slang
  67. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of April 15, 2103
  68. Cullions, Fustilarians, and Pizzles: A Short Dictionary of Shakespearean Insults
  69. Word Soup Wednesday: dead flight, Horlicks, Southern strategy
  70. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of April 8, 2013
  71. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: passings, Philly accent, Quidditching
  72. March Wordnik of the Month: Madison Andrews
  73. Tax Soup: 10 Weird Taxes
  74. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of April 1, 2013
  75. Word Soup Wednesday: arabber, fuchsteufelwild, nerd glaze
  76. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of March 25, 2013
  77. Dupes, Gulls, and Schnooks: The Words of April Fools
  78. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: war, Scandinavian, obsolete words
  79. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of March 18, 2013
  80. Puppet Words on a String
  81. Word Soup Wednesday: affineur, Changnesia, snowquester
  82. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of March 11, 2013
  83. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: grammar, wordplay, Canadianisms
  84. Word Soup: The Favorite Words of AWP 2013
  85. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of March 4, 2013
  86. Coupon Lingo: 10 (Not So) Extreme Couponing Words
  87. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of February 25, 2013
  88. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: movies, Dublin phrases, Brogurt
  89. Word Soup Wednesday: crotcherazzi, jookin’, secessionist
  90. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of February 18, 2013
  91. The Wordnik Five Favorites Review: How to Not Write Bad, by Ben Yagoda
  92. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: presidents’ words, dialect controversy, fairy tales
  93. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of February 11, 2013
  94. Downton Soup: The Words of Downton Abbey, Season 3
  95. Word Soup Wednesday: despertainment, fart patio, hogcock
  96. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of February 4, 2013
  97. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: 30 Rock, gaslighting, dictionary news
  98. Dickensian Soup: 11 Words from Charles Dickens
  99. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of January 28, 2013
  100. The Name Game: Steve Rivkin
  101. Word Soup Wednesday: baller, Benghazi flu, Tuiasosopo
  102. A Short-Tempered History of the ‘Curmudgeon’
  103. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of January 21, 2013
  104. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Inauguration Day, gun control, biblio-cats
  105. Lewis Carroll: Through the Looking-Glass, and What Words We Found There
  106. Introducing Reverb: Connecting People with Meaningful Content
  107. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of January 14, 2013
  108. To Catch Some Thief Words
  109. Word Soup Wednesday: BOGO, green fairy, lion’s head
  110. A Message from the Future!
  111. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Passings, words of the year, foreign words
  112. The Name Game: Tate Linden and Stokefire
  113. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of December 31, 2012
  114. Letter Writing Week Contest: A Letter from Your Future Self

2012 166

  1. Best of the WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge 2012
  2. Best of Language Blog Roundup 2012
  3. The Words of Rudyard Kipling
  4. Best of Word Soup 2012: TV Word Love
  5. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of December 17, 2012
  6. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Words of the Year, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, movies
  7. Words for the Apocalypse Now (Or Later)
  8. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of December 10, 2012
  9. Giving Words: Gifts, Tips, and Bribes
  10. Celebrating ‘The Hobbit’: Journey Words, Unexpected or Not
  11. Word Soup Wednesday: Geophagy, Hog Maw, Rexie
  12. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of December 3, 2012
  13. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Dictionary scandal, names, 30 Rock cocktails
  14. Taxi Words: A Brief History
  15. The Name Game: Anthony Shore of Operative Words
  16. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of November 26, 2012
  17. Gaming Words: Celebrating Pong’s 40th Anniversary
  18. Word Soup Wednesday: Boom carpet, Iron Dome, waggle dance
  19. The Name Game: Michael Cronan and Karin Hibma of : : CRONAN : :
  20. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of November 19, 2012
  21. Thanksgiving Contest Winners: Turducken Words
  22. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of November 12, 2012
  23. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Election, WOTY, and terrifying origins
  24. The Name Game: Nancy Friedman and Wordworking
  25. Thanksgiving Contest: Create a New Turducken
  26. Hobson-Jobson Soup: English Words from Indian Languages
  27. Welcome Adam!
  28. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of November 5, 2012
  29. Word Soup Wednesday: Battleground state, die dreaming, unwindulax
  30. Election Day Soup: Words on Politics and Campaigning
  31. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of October 29, 2012
  32. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Superstorm, Romnesia, and more
  33. Happy Halloween! Some Ghostly Words
  34. How to Talk Like Jane Austen
  35. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of October 22, 2012
  36. Word Soup Wednesday: Pokemoning, Butt Chugging, Spatter
  37. Welcome Hannah and Tom!
  38. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of October 15, 2012
  39. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Binders, Britishisms, and more
  40. Dictionary Day Contest Winners: Fictional Dictionaries
  41. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of October 8, 2012
  42. Swagger codgen 2.0 Released!
  43. Word Soup Wednesday: Dixiecrat, Etch a Sketch, zinger
  44. Dictionary Day Contest: Fictional Dictionaries
  45. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of October 1, 2012
  46. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Banned Books Week, grammar wars, and more
  47. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of September 24, 2012
  48. Word Soup Wednesday: moochacracy, mad as a hatter, take it on the arches
  49. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup – Week of September 17, 2012
  50. Punctuation Soup
  51. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Political speech, feck, Shakespeare, and more
  52. Atomic Bombs, Time Machines, and Lurve: Words from H. G. Wells
  53. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of September 10, 2012
  54. Word Soup Wednesday: Creatrix, EKIA, hop the twig, and more
  55. O. Henry: The Gift of Words
  56. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of September 3, 2012
  57. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Lying, Eastwooding, YOLO
  58. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge – Week of August 27, 2012
  59. Breaking Bad Words: Thieves, Drugs, and Special Sauce
  60. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup – Week of August 20, 2012
  61. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Taboo initials, language peeves, and more
  62. True Blood: Some Fangtastic Words
  63. Welcome Katie!
  64. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup – Week of August 13, 2012
  65. Favorite Food Words: Celebrating Julia Child’s 100th Birthday
  66. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup – Week of August 6, 2012
  67. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup: Mars, Olympics, and more
  68. Shark Week: Sharkings and Loan
  69. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup – Week of July 30, 2012
  70. Word Soup Wednesday
  71. A Wordnik welcome to Andy and Jeff
  72. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  73. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  74. Word Soup: The Ancient Greek Games
  75. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  76. Word Soup Wednesday
  77. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  78. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  79. Welcome Joe!
  80. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  81. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  82. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  83. Obamacare Soup
  84. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  85. Orwellian Soup
  86. Word Soup Wednesday
  87. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  88. Welcome Omar!
  89. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  90. Word Soup: James Joyce
  91. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  92. Welcome Ascander!
  93. Word Soup: Mad Men
  94. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  95. 2012 National Spelling Bee Recap
  96. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  97. We’re Under Your Spell: Scripps National Spelling Bee
  98. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  99. The Language of the Telegraph
  100. Word Soup Wednesday
  101. Elementary, My Dear Wordnik! Mystery Words
  102. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  103. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  104. Welcome Jim, Aaron, and (belatedly) Thomas!
  105. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  106. Word Soup Wednesday
  107. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  108. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  109. Marvel-ous Words
  110. Happy May Day!
  111. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  112. Introducing SwaggerSocket: A REST over WebSocket Protocol
  113. Word Soup Wednesday
  114. WotD Challenge Roundup: The Haiku Edition
  115. Shakespeare Soup
  116. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  117. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  118. This Week’s WotD Challenge: Haikus
  119. Word Soup Wednesday
  120. Titanic Words
  121. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  122. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  123. How to Speak Rabbit
  124. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  125. Word Soup: Let’s Play Boru!
  126. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  127. Discovering words on the iPad
  128. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  129. Prison Terms
  130. With Software, Small is the new Big
  131. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  132. Welcome Beatrice, Rami, and Tiger!
  133. Lucky Words
  134. Word Soup Wednesday
  135. Happy Pi Day!
  136. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  137. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  138. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  139. Word Soup Wednesday
  140. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  141. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  142. Word Soup: Movie Words
  143. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  144. Word Soup: Downton Abbey
  145. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  146. What Is Love?
  147. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  148. Word Soup Wednesday
  149. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  150. We want your lists!
  151. Word Soup-er Bowl
  152. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  153. The Versatile Blogger Award
  154. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  155. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  156. Scottish Food Words: Celebrating Robert Burns
  157. Word Soup
  158. Stop SOPA and PIPA
  159. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  160. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  161. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  162. Letters and Notes
  163. Wordnik News & Reminders
  164. Word Soup: Science Fiction
  165. Tolkien and the Bestiarium of Fantasy
  166. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup

2011 139

  1. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  2. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  3. Word Soup Wednesday
  4. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  5. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  6. Wordnik Now Makes SmartMoney Smarter (Wordnik Means Business)
  7. Word Soup: Glee
  8. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  9. What’s with the Swaggering?
  10. Word Soup Wednesday
  11. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  12. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  13. Wordnik Site Updates
  14. Welcome Gregg!
  15. Word Soup Wednesday
  16. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  17. Behold the Turkey
  18. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  19. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  20. Palindromes and Other Word Play
  21. Welcome Alex!
  22. Word Soup Wednesday
  23. WotD Perfect Tweet Challenge Roundup
  24. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  25. Words on Plot and Treason
  26. Welcome Will!
  27. Saintly Words
  28. Wotd Perfect Tweets Roundup
  29. Our Favorite Fear Words
  30. Word Soup
  31. Speaking of the Devil, Part 2
  32. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  33. Speaking of the Devil, Part 1
  34. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  35. Dictionary Day Photography Contest Winners
  36. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  37. Vampire Vords (And Accents)
  38. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  39. Zombie Words Attack!
  40. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  41. Happy Hangul Day!
  42. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  43. Dictionary Day – Contest
  44. Werewolf Words
  45. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  46. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  47. Drinks Week: Beer
  48. Drinks Week: Coffee
  49. Drinks Week: Funny Drink Names
  50. Drinks Week: Tea
  51. Drinks Week: Wine
  52. WotD Perfect Tweets Challenge
  53. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  54. Punctuation Rules!
  55. Yo Ho Yo Ho!
  56. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  57. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  58. Words in Fashion
  59. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup – Giveaway Edition
  60. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  61. Welcome JeanFrancois!
  62. Work Words
  63. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup – Giveaway Edition
  64. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  65. The Three Rs: ’Rithmetic
  66. The Three Rs: Writing
  67. The Three Rs: Reading
  68. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup – Giveaway Edition
  69. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  70. Season of the SATs
  71. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup – Giveaway Edition
  72. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  73. Commonly Confused Words
  74. Pocket Posh Dictionary Give-Away
  75. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  76. Wordnik News: Swagger, Jobs, NoSQL Now
  77. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  78. Dog Days
  79. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  80. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  81. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  82. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  83. The Language of Sharks
  84. Wordnik News
  85. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  86. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  87. Wordnik’s New Word Page: Lists
  88. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  89. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  90. Attention all muggles and squibs!
  91. Wordnik’s New Word Page: Related Words
  92. Wordnik’s Word Graph Helps TaskRabbit Help You
  93. “New Word Graph API Takes Wordnik From Fun and Funky Apps to Some Serious Business Services”
  94. All-Star Words
  95. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  96. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  97. Summer Watching
  98. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  99. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  100. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  101. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  102. Summer Reading
  103. Unmapped Words: Portmanteaus
  104. Wordnik’s Word Pages: now with 86.5% more resplendence
  105. WotD Perfect Tweets Roundup
  106. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  107. Happy Bloomsday!
  108. The WotD Perfect Tweet
  109. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  110. Secret Word Wednesday: So long, and thanks for all the fish
  111. 2011 Spelling Bee Recap
  112. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  113. Secret Word Wednesday Explained
  114. Wordnik, W-O-R-D-N-I-K, Wordnik
  115. Flowing into the river of English …
  116. This Week’s Language Blog Roundup
  117. Secret Word Wednesday Explained
  118. Power Up With Pocket Posh Word Power Dictionaries
  119. This Week’s Language Blog Round-Up
  120. International Sweet Tooth Fairy Day
  121. Secret Word Wednesday Explained
  122. Techical Communicators and Wordnik – Perfect Together
  123. Tag Questions Are Useful, Amirite?
  124. This Week’s Language Blog Round-Up
  125. We’re Hiring: Head of Business Development
  126. Secret Word Wednesday Explained
  127. Wordnik Mobile
  128. Secret Word Wednesday Explained
  129. What’s missing from your personal dictionary?
  130. Wordnik for Nook!
  131. More Audio on Wordnik
  132. Wordnik Tech Roundup
  133. Create Your Own Word of the Day
  134. Introducing WordKit for iOS
  135. Support Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Efforts
  136. Wordnik API has gone Beta
  137. Calling All Developers: Check Out Our New Developer Site!
  138. O’Reilly Strata Startup Showcase
  139. Zeke

2010 74

  1. Have some software on us
  2. Happy API-versary!
  3. Improved Search: Wildcards and Lists
  4. On (Y)our Mark …
  5. Wordnik and Blekko!
  6. 12 Months with MongoDB
  7. Wordnik is Hiring! Know Ruby on Rails?
  8. biNu: Wordnik on almost any mobile phone
  9. A Heartrending Moment: Orthoepy and The OED
  10. Wiktionary, Improved Profiles
  11. Wordnik, Now With More Thesaurus
  12. 25,000 Lists!
  13. The Orthoepist: Would you like some cumin with your bruschetta?
  14. B is for Billion
  15. Ruby and Python Libraries, Rails and Django Demo Apps
  16. The Orthoepist: Introduction
  17. 2010 Developer Challenge Winners
  18. 2010 Dev Challenge: Still a Horse Race
  19. Built-in Translations
  20. Announcing Wordnik’s 2010 Developer Challenge
  21. Join the Wordnik API Google Group
  22. Spring News from Wordnik
  23. Word frequency charts
  24. Announcing: “Secret Word Wednesday”
  25. We’re going mobile …
  26. Cricket!
  27. Scheduled Maintenance
  28. Are your words smart enough?
  29. What has technology done for words lately?
  30. Happy Valentine’s Day!
  31. Serendipi-tag
  32. The Audio Cyclopedia
  33. A random walk through Wordnik
  34. List of the day: Out to Sea
  35. Word of the day: roundhand
  36. Describing food
  37. Word of the day: barratry
  38. The Devils and his imps
  39. Schlep
  40. Pinchbeck, fraud, and lies
  41. Words that look like adverbs but aren’t
  42. Slub
  43. Salt and saltiness
  44. Sub judice
  45. Bedaphors
  46. Alectryomancy
  47. Words that sound dirty but aren’t
  48. Captious
  49. Cold steel
  50. Ambilevous
  51. Heraldry
  52. Vug
  53. The hazards of spellcheck
  54. Bespawl
  55. Things animal-ine
  56. Lambent
  57. Words about words
  58. Skep
  59. Words from “Infinite Jest”
  60. Bombinate and bombilate, bumble and bum
  61. Hemidemisemiquaver and drumming terms
  62. Site Maintenance
  63. Words from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
  64. Sough
  65. Printmaking terms
  66. Vicissitude
  67. Nonsense, bother, and trash
  68. Esurient
  69. Adjectives ending with -y
  70. Snash
  71. Abecedarian insult list
  72. Mundungus
  73. Books split over the new year
  74. Decennium, decadal, and decennary

2009 156

  1. See the wood for the trees
  2. Shandygaff
  3. ROT-13 Pairs
  4. Green
  5. You can say that again
  6. Syllabub
  7. My Little Ponies
  8. Bunny
  9. Playthings and toys
  10. Alpenglow
  11. Substancestry
  12. Skinker
  13. Words second-graders don’t know
  14. Frumenty
  15. Update: maintenance finished, back online
  16. What Christmas means to me, my love
  17. Qualtagh and Nollick Ghennal
  18. Nincompoopery
  19. V neck
  20. Favorite five-letter words
  21. Kebab
  22. Ersatz
  23. Boxing
  24. Mythical creatures
  25. Thropple
  26. Slippery, whispery, shiny words
  27. Methinks
  28. Don’t drink the war
  29. Greatcoat
  30. Famous robots
  31. Dumbassery
  32. Nontroversy
  33. Encyclopedia gustatorica
  34. The history of cool
  35. Vigesimal
  36. Words to Try to Use in Colloquial Speech Without Sounding Like a Pretentious Ass
  37. Stane
  38. List of the day: words and compounds containing two aitches
  39. Nimrod
  40. Expletive mimicry
  41. Alaia
  42. Cahot and soul soles
  43. Mast and magic tricks
  44. Synesis and Garden State places
  45. Raglan and nick-nacks
  46. Limitrophe and unexpected side effects
  47. Anent and awesome pronunciations
  48. Georgic down on the farm
  49. Wrick and -imm-
  50. Haruspex and sweet tooth fairy
  51. We’re back!
  52. Site updates in progress!
  53. Gloaming and the animal identity crisis
  54. Adorkable and capitonyms
  55. Belvedere; words that roll or stumble off the tongue
  56. Mancession
  57. Belter
  58. Dight and a laundry list
  59. Alizarin
  60. Wordnik & Wordie: Moving Day!
  61. Fomite
  62. Celadon
  63. Corker
  64. Harl
  65. Kerplunk
  66. Mooncalf
  67. Amort
  68. Terpsichorean
  69. Sedulous
  70. Mumblement
  71. Wordnik word of the day: soubrette
  72. Cremnophobia, morbid fear of…
  73. Wordnik word of the day: seidel
  74. Announcing the new Wordnik alpha APIs! (UPDATED)
  75. Wordnik word of the day: frisket
  76. Wordnik word of the day: API
  77. Wordnik word of the day: doke
  78. Wordnik word of the day: spoony
  79. Wordnik word of the day: palaver
  80. Happy Dictionary Day! Our word of the day is dictionary!
  81. Our New Look
  82. Wordnik is being updated…
  83. Wordnik word of the day: dottle
  84. Wordnik word of the day: indicia
  85. Wordnik word of the day: jug-handled
  86. Wordnik word of the day: daylight
  87. Wordnik word of the day: sawder
  88. Wordnik word of the day: luna moth
  89. Wordnik word of the day: pluck
  90. Wordnik word of the day: sumph
  91. We Love the Century Dictionary
  92. Wordnik word of the day: warkamoowee
  93. Where’s Wordnik? (UPDATED)
  94. Wordnik word of the day: wattle
  95. Hullabaloo!
  96. Tump, the Wordnik word of the day
  97. Wordnik word of the day: quinquagenarian
  98. Wordnik word of the day: maven
  99. Wordnik word of the day: heifer
  100. Wordnik word of the day: scagliola
  101. Wordnik word of the day: flagitious
  102. Wordnik word of the day: mummock
  103. Wordnik word of the day: papelard
  104. Wordnik word of the day: cashew
  105. Wordnik word of the day: mell
  106. Wordnik word of the day: muffineer
  107. Wordnik word of the day: hussy
  108. TED talks: setting a good example (and then some)
  109. Wordnik word of the day: bevue
  110. Wordnik word of the day: falx
  111. Wordnik word of the day: fascinator
  112. Wordnik word of the day: cacoethes
  113. Wordnik + Wordie
  114. I’ve got no option but to sell you all for scientific experiments.
  115. Wordnik word of the day: bosky
  116. Wordnik word of the day: ultroneous
  117. Wordnik word of the day: preterist
  118. Wordnik word of the day: spirituel
  119. Wordnik word of the day: cicisbeo
  120. Wordnik words of the day: heartsease
  121. Wordnik word of the day: jesting-beam
  122. Wordnik word of the day: pavonine
  123. Wordnik word of the day: sobersides
  124. Wordnik word of the day: jane-of-apes
  125. Wordnik word of the day: ruelle
  126. Wordnik word of the day: arenose
  127. Wordnik word of the day: mirliton
  128. Wordnik word of the day: crotchet
  129. Wordnik word of the day: rux
  130. Wordnik word of the day: slitheroo
  131. Hurrah! We Have a Word-of-the-Day Widget!
  132. Wordnik word of the day: witticaster
  133. Wordnik word of the day: latration
  134. Wordnik word of the day: chapfallen
  135. Wordnik word of the day: billingsgate
  136. Wordnik word of the day: panurgic
  137. What Does Your Wordnik Profile Say About You?
  138. Wordnik, Varnish
  139. New Stuff at Wordnik!
  140. Carbonated Frequencies
  141. Celebratory Haiku!
  142. “Wittgenstein would love this, and he might just call it ‘awesomepants’.”
  143. Come In, We’re Open!
  144. Thanks, Bill!
  145. Best. Map. Ever.
  146. Are you in?
  147. Birdie Num Num
  148. We’ll be back after another short break
  149. Beautiful Libraries
  150. We’re almost there …
  151. Hi! We’re Wordnik! Nice to meet you!
  152. The Morbid Language of Newspapers
  153. Yes We Scan
  154. After Deadline: Murky Passages
  155. Beware the Econorrhea
  156. Getting Back on the Bike

2008 77

  1. Happy 80th, OED
  2. Best Library Ever
  3. Leviathan of Forensics
  4. Word Clock
  5. Dinosaurology
  6. Private Notes on Words
  7. Rumor Mill
  8. Comma Kameleon
  9. Best Typo Ever
  10. What I Did On My Summer Vacation
  11. The Regional Assembly of Text
  12. Joe Makes Tea
  13. GiveVaccines.org
  14. Most Active Threads
  15. uʍop ǝpısdn
  16. Egan: Save the Press
  17. Capitol Words
  18. Times People: Another Social Network for Adults
  19. 75 Years Later, Joyce Obscene Again
  20. Peak Paper
  21. Congratulations Sameer!
  22. Requiem for the print OED
  23. Limnology and Why I’m a Bad Blogger
  24. Requiem for a Wordie
  25. They Tell "Stories"
  26. Who owns quodpot?
  27. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
  28. "Bookshelf" does Bookshelves; Back to Dictionaries for Errata
  29. Uroko House: Bookcase Bedroom
  30. Library Carts As Bookcases
  31. New Revision Schedule for the OED
  32. World’s Best Exclamation Point
  33. The House That Wordie Built
  34. Graphis Magazine Covers
  35. Tag All Words in a List
  36. Onion Writer Infiltrates NYTimes
  37. Nigerian English: Yahoo-Yahoo boys, with cutlasses!
  38. Breaker Breaker, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog
  39. Wordy Birdie on Twitter
  40. Takes All Types
  41. Andreessen on Obama
  42. Books in the Rafters
  43. Staircase Bookcase
  44. On OUPblog: Reading the OED, An Interview with Ammon Shea
  45. Donald, I’m Sorry
  46. Wordie Action Alert: Dictionary of American Regional English
  47. NYTimes is to Kindle as Gillette is to Razor
  48. Visualizing the English Language
  49. Wordie Image Search
  50. Dictionary of Newfie English
  51. The New York Times Should Be a Social Network
  52. Judge Selya, we salute you
  53. Marc Andreessen’s New York Times Deathwatch
  54. Punctuational Outburst
  55. Who Gives a F*** About An Oxford Comma?
  56. Loose Climate Change
  57. Donald Rumsfeld: "Pods are there"
  58. New York, What Are You Smoking?
  59. Incubus, the first movie in… Shatneranto? Shasperanto?
  60. Better Sorting for Lists and Comments
  61. Make a Wordie Screensaver
  62. Vending Machines for Books
  63. Living in a Dictionary
  64. Book Ads in the NYTimes, 1962-1973
  65. CJR: The Limits of Clear Language
  66. Steve Jobs: "People Don’t Read"
  67. More Definitions
  68. Scrabble for Cheaters
  69. New York Times, why do you hate me so?
  70. Shelby Lynne, Grammarian
  71. The Salad Dodger
  72. Depraved and Insulting English
  73. Kids Still Read
  74. Introducing Wordie Mini-Feeds
  75. Everyone should not study Chomsky
  76. The iPhone and the Death of Social Media
  77. Maledicta

2007 73

  1. Pelf
  2. NYTimes Buzzwords 2007
  3. Holiday-O-Matic
  4. 6 Gifts for Wordinistas, last minute edition
  5. Flipping like Mitt Romney
  6. Text Post Redacto
  7. Group Lists
  8. M00t
  9. Human Brain Cloud
  10. Pòg mo thoin
  11. Csókol az én -m csacsi
  12. William Safire Steals All My Ideas
  13. Transmogrified List Feeds
  14. Pick Me! *sits up straight, waves hand wildly*
  15. We Are Not Alone
  16. Still More Glossaries
  17. 25 Gifts for Wordinistas
  18. Japanese Buzzwords
  19. The Kindle: Books Don’t Need Saving
  20. Wordie Mobile, New Feature Roundup
  21. In other asterisk-related news…
  22. NYTimes: Not Fucked Up
  23. Seedy Stories
  24. Naming Party
  25. Other words of this year
  26. How many lawyers does it take to define the word "bus"?
  27. There She Is, Locavore
  28. When lexicographers strike!
  29. Literally, The Blog
  30. Natural Language Search
  31. Paginated Word Lists
  32. The Swearing Festival
  33. The Cupertino Effect
  34. Give That Woman a Crappaccino!*
  35. Wordie hearts vajayjay
  36. More Glossaries
  37. Will Word for Food
  38. The Comedy of the Commons
  39. Unsocial Sites
  40. And Now a Word From Our Sponsors
  41. Search Term Autocomplete
  42. Glossaralia
  43. Make Your Own Boss Button
  44. Hit Ctl-b: The Boss Button
  45. Words on the Brink!
  46. Tagging Words
  47. QToro! Toro! Toro!
  48. Ordering crêpes in Vilnius
  49. Citing Sci-Fi
  50. Top Sites for Logophiles
  51. Erin McKean: Redefining the dictionary
  52. NYT: More on Dying Languages
  53. Preserving Endangered Languages
  54. Talk Like a Pirate Day
  55. Listphile
  56. Email notifications
  57. From the NY Times Morgue
  58. "We are talking about words"
  59. Wordie becomes xenophobic, gets over it
  60. Comments now above the fold
  61. Faster, Wordie, Kill! Kill!
  62. DNS limbo
  63. Wordie hearts Facebook
  64. "Random Words" Widget
  65. News Feeds
  66. Spelling and Grammar
  67. Speed bump
  68. Reference tools, anyone?
  69. Collaborative Fiction
  70. Cooper black: Superst★
  71. Helvetica, math, bloggers
  72. You are what you read
  73. See all comments on your words and lists

2006 17

  1. Some Crap
  2. Comment feeds for words and lists
  3. Wall Street Journal: Wordie a "Time Waster"
  4. Word Clouds
  5. Live Bookmarks, Vote Wordie
  6. The Crux of my Venereal Infection
  7. Wordie Blog Widget
  8. Pimping Wordie
  9. Flickr Group, List Descriptions
  10. Move Words Between List, First Wordied
  11. Ascertain Guy
  12. WotY: Truthiness
  13. Rita Moreno, Morgan Freeman: Wordies
  14. Please, only quality garbage
  15. TechCrunched
  16. New Features Roundup
  17. A Brief History of Wordie