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Wondrous Word Wednesday
 Kathy at Bermuda Onion is sponsoring a weekly meme featuring the new words we come across in our reading. I’m going to join in today with a couple of words I learned this week.
- Detritus – as in “. . . strung from end to end with the detritus of a thousand teenage beer and reefer parties. . .” Detritus means waste or debris of any kind. This was in Montana Creed – Logan by Linda Lael Miller. (Yes, Romance novels can have big words too.)
- Somnambulant – as in “. . . or of the somnambulant governmental establishment that presided over the catastrophe.” Somnambulant means sleepwalking. I found this on the New York Times Opinion page in a Frank Rich column. (Yes, I can read both the NY Times and Romance novels.)
What new words have you noticed lately? To join in visit here.
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Thanks for joining in the fun this week. Somnambulant looked familiar to me, but I couldn’t define it.
I use detritus all the time – it’s a great word!
Somambulant…for some reason I love this word… along with somnambulatory. I love the way it looks and sounds but have a hard time pronouncing it:)
Well these are both new words to me!
Nice words, both sadly underused.
Two good words!!