I’ve been following wordnik since my first days on Twitter, participating in their (now defunct) daily challenge to use their Word of the Day in a sentence. I have fond memories of silly word-related contests, and I often retweet their List of the Day. Hey, I even won a wordnik t-shirt! So it’s only natural that when they began putting words up for adoption, I jumped at the chance to celebrate the Byways books. For the duration of one year, you’ll find C. J. Milbrandt listed alongside their online dictionary entry for “byway.”
Much to my delight, wordnik even sent me a spiffy certificate to commemorate this most auspicious of connections:
C. J. Milbrandt 
Hmmm, let’s see. I like ‘serendipity: a fortunate accident’. I also like ‘defenestrate: to throw (someone) out a window as a means of execution’, but too many other people are keen on that one, so I doubt I’d get to adopt it. I’d probably go with the word that’s been a favourite since I heard it when I was 7 – ‘sesquipedalian: (of a word) extremely long (literally, a foot and a half long)’.
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So many fabulous options! ; )
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Serendipity is so much fun to say.
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I have no memory of having read this before: http://www.merriam-webster.com/top-ten-lists/top-10-peoples-favorite-words/defenestration.html
but all the three words I mentioned are in the list. Horrors, I’ll have to find some less popular ones! :)
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That is so cool. I love the widget on your sidebar <3
I could see myself adopting words like hibernate, create, or stuff. For self-explanitory reasons…
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