ubiquinpotaqueous
u•biq•uin•po•taq•ue•ous
|yoo bik win po tak' wee us|
adjective
the state of water in which it is everywhere, and yet there is not a drop of it to drink : he grew increasingly worried by the ubiquinpotaqueous liquid surrounding his boat | the water was fine, if a bit ubiquinpotaqueous.
DERIVATIVES
u•biq•uin•po•taq•ue•ous•ly adverb
u•biq•uin•po•taq•ue•ous•ness noun
ORIGIN early 21st cent.: from modern Latin ubiquitas + in- + French potable + medieval Latin aqueus.
courtesy Erin McKean's fantastic Word Lovers' Bootcamp at GEL today. Erin's really the best thing to happen for dictionaries since thumb notches, and I'm glad I had a chance to get a closer look at how she relishes the English language and loves watching it mature.
Interesting that I also got to walk the city with Paul Shaw on his Letters of New York tour, thinking about the meaning, structure, and development of letters after luxuriating in the meaning, structure, and development of syllables and words with Erin. I hope to complete the trifecta tomorrow at a session with Ira Glass, who clearly loves sentences and stories as much as anybody on the air today, and who is--as Erin and Paul are--infectiously thrilled by what he does [bonus! pre-GEL-talk clip of Ira talking stories via coudal]
Posted by tangentialist at April 19, 2007 4:19 PM | more tangentialism
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