As tribute to A Way With Words (which, KPBS announced yesterday, has, in addition to the TV show Full Focus, been canceled), a word to add to your vocabulary:
HOMOCHROMOUS, an adjective meaning to be all of one color, used most often to refer to a flower, but I permit you to use it any way you want, such as, “My brunette friend spends so much time at the tanning salon, she’s beginning to look homochromous,” or “For dinner we ate carrots, yams and Cheetos; it was quite a homochromous meal.”
If you’re upset about the shows’ cancellations, you might enjoy taking a look at the reader comments here.
August 2, 2007 - 3:06 pm at 3:06 pm
Sad, it was the only local centric focused video news, and it was in Hi-Def! I read it cost $1Million a year, which isn’t obscene by any stretch, but they could do an online only version without the fancy cameras and use the money to pay for journalists. Who watches TV anymore anyway?
August 2, 2007 - 3:28 pm at 3:28 pm
Am I understanding that there will no longer be an Editor’s Roundtable as well as the loss of Full Focus and A Way With Words?
Now I remember why I stopped subscribing to KPBS and became a member of KCRW.
August 2, 2007 - 3:47 pm at 3:47 pm
You know, a verbivore always sounded to me like someone who eats verbs. I don’t like it. Verbs are not at all filling. How about Etymophilia? Or etymaphone? Oooh, I like that. I’m an etymaphone!
August 2, 2007 - 6:57 pm at 6:57 pm
how about a verbophile then. Verbophiles do not eat verbs out of their great, unduring love for them. Eating verbs, to the verbophile, would be very, very wrong.
August 3, 2007 - 11:00 am at 11:00 am
How about verbophobe? A life without verbs. Unimaginable.
Like a life without that lame but already missed show.
August 3, 2007 - 6:06 pm at 6:06 pm
Not to worry, word lovers. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes, and we here at “A Way with Words” are very excited about the future of this show. You can keep up with the latest developments at our new site, http://www.waywordradio.org. Please stop by and sign up for our newsletter!
August 4, 2007 - 5:59 am at 5:59 am
Yeah, Martha and I have talked about things other than “verbivores.” It’s a toughy. What about:
palabristo
lex wreck
logomacher
writersnipe
grammarsnipe
lexicophage
morpheme fiend
lexeme-lover
lexemist
glossolalian
wordinista
No? Probably not.
August 7, 2007 - 9:33 am at 9:33 am
See, that’s why Grant is such an improvement on Richard Ledderererererer. Lots of good contenders on that list. I think I like wordinista best, though it sounds much nastier than the fairly permissive environment of A Way with Words.