Hello. This is my first blog post concerning the Wonderful World of Words, a place on the Internet where dictionary.com's Word of the Day is put into context that is useful funny for 365 days. My name is Jillian, and I am currently a freshman at Syracuse University (Newhouse 2016!) where I'm studying to be a TRF (Television/Radio/Film) major. I live far from school, in Southern California, but it just makes feeling the sun on my face even better when I come home.
My purpose with this blog is to look up the Word of the Day everyday on dictionary.com, use it in conversation during my day, then write about said conversation and how I used it in context. Boring you say? Not much better than reading about a PBS special for non-four-year-olds? Think again! Because I will use these ornate, lucid words that only your English teacher would ever use in real life and stick them smack dab in the middle of an ordinary conversation. I know. To some people, this sounds evil.
Purposefully using big words? And then writing about it on the Internet? Psh, nerd. But the thing is, I've got a lifetime of major writing projects ahead of me. I'm in college after all. I'll be taking two writing intensive classes this semester, a grammar class, a communications class. I'll be writing papers of fiction and non-fiction alike, and I'll be sending them to my professors, to future employers, and to Lorne Michaels. I've got to brush up on my vocabulary if I'm every going to achieve the kind of Internet fame every blogger so desperately pines for.
I'm not going to engage in my quoting practice today, but I will tell you what homeboy Webster says the WoD is:
exordium
\ ig-ZAWR-dee-uhm \ , noun;
1. The beginning of anything.
2. The introductory part of an oration, treatise, etc.
The exordium of the new year is upon us, so I wish you all a happy 2013!
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