The word of the day is designed to broaden our grammatical horizons. Nothing is more impressive than casually spouting off 5-syllable masterpieces in mid-sentence – except maybe really big boobs… Anyway, every day I’ll post a new word for you to work into daily conversation so that you can wow friends, dazzle coworkers and confuse blonde girls and frat guys, because learning is fun and knowing is half the battle.
 

February 17, 2005

Triskaidekaphobia

Tris"kai-dek-a-pho"bi-a : n. "Morbid fear of the number 13."

Probably a lot of NFL defenses had triskaidekaphobia when they had to face Dan Marino, but Kurt Warner? Not so much anymore...

Beat it