Verbose Verbiage From Readers

Verbalicious - Eating ones words - from Tanya
Verbagious – Words that are contagious and you just
can’t stop using them (like “oh my god!”) - from Lori
Verbixer – Mixing up your words - from Lori

Hence, I Would Rather Not Watch Desperate Housewives Any Longer

I don't know why but I can't seem to stop watching "Desperate Housewives." It was fairly entertaining (in a mindless, trashy sort of way) its first year, but it has gone downhill ever since. At any rate, I bring the show up because on last Sunday's episode a character named Mike, who is a plumber, repeatedly used the word hence because for some reason he thought it made him sound smarter and classier. Perhaps he should have had his druthers about something because, according to the "Dictionary of American Regional English," the word druthers has a proven record of being used more often by college-educated people.

Druthers is an interesting word. It is basically a contraction of "I would ruther" (ruther being a dialectical form of rather). But if you think about it, druthers is also similar to a portmanteau word because it takes some of its sound and meaning from both would and ruther.

And now back to hence......the word hence is loosely defined as "from this fact," according to the etymology website, http://www.etymonline.com/index.php. And of course there is thence "from that place" and whence "from when."

Just wanted to throw out some additional verbiage for the "Desperate Housewives" scriptwriters to consider.

Verbose Verbiage

While visiting the website http://www.wordie.org I came across the word verbivorous which was defined as follows: 1. Literally, eating words for sustenance. 2. To be such a voracious reader that one could seem to live solely on words. 3. The name of a website (http://www.verbivorous.com) where you can share books with other readers. This word was obviously created by a verbose (in a good way) person whose verbiage is most impressive, because the word is not listed in dictionaries (yet). I love the word and I like to consider myself a verbivore. At any rate, the word verbivorous got me thinking of all the potential words that could be created with verb as their root. Here are some I came up with:

Verbemia - The state of having words in ones blood
Verbitis - The inflammation of words one uses
Verboid - Void of words
Verbiatrics - Medical treatment for improving the words one uses
Verbuflect - Bowing down to someones words
Verbature - The act of tying things together with ones words

I could go on and on, however, I would rather hear what my readers can conceive. Don't be verboid, send me some of your creative verbiage.