Although it’s been a feature on my radio show for over a year, I somehow haven’t managed to post anything online about a weekly bit called that I call the Semi-Useless Word of the Day. I basically find an archaic/obsolete/highly-specialized word that you generally wouldn’t encounter in day-to-day life and write some sort of comedic sentence to illustrate its use. Luckily, I don’t have to thumb through worm-eaten lexicons to do so thanks to some fine websites such as the Phrontistery, Grandiloquent Dictionary, and Worthless Word for the Day. For starters, here’s my most recent SUWOTD:

6/29/2008 found through WWFTD

Marmoreal: resembling marble, as in smoothness, whiteness, or hardness

Many beachgoers were blinded by the marmoreal belly of Mr. St. Alphonzo, a retired dental floss tycoon who had just moved to the Keys from Montana.