In a nutshell
Does anyone in Seattle know of a good accountant? April is looming …
According to Wired:
Mociology n. The study of how people adapt and use wireless technologies, from buying concert tickets to organizing political rallies. The field gets its name from mobile and sociology – and has already spawned an offshoot, mocio-economics, the study of how companies can capitalize on all this mocio-activity.
I love it.
And if you’re looking for a word of the day e-mail subscription that gives you words you don’t already know, check out Erin’s Weird and Wonderful Word of the Day from Oxford University Press. Recent entries include:
fankle
a Scottish word meaning ‘to tangle or entangle something.’ It comes from Scots fank, which means “a coil of rope.”
telmatology
the study of peat-bogs. The adjective for peat-boggian, if needed, is turbarian, and the Scottish dialect word for peat-bog is yarpha.
feuillemorte
an adjective meaning ‘having the color of a dead or faded leaf’ (i.e., brown or yellowish brown). It comes from the French for ‘dead leaf.’ Other, less Frenchy forms are filemot, philemort, and phillimot.
and my personal favorite thus far:
photuria
phosphorescence of the urine