For spelling, capitalization, usage, style, context, out of curiosity:
crinoline
marqueters vs marquetarians
Archimedes
Dukes of Hazzard
hindguts
pseudopodia
dammit vs damn it
“is [read the book to find out] from Raising Arizona”
Martin Löffelholz
mushrooming
magic marker
wallered out
cabal
shagreen
Kha’s tomb
Esperanto
boogering
whoop-de-do
tenterhooks
Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area
geegaw
Liberace chapeau
popliteal height
vicar
cwtsh
Shmoo
Gouda
Old Testament
charlatans
Castile
I think that list is marketing gold in and of itself but I will add this, despite the fact that Chris hates praise (something he writes about in this book): “The Stick Chair Book,” which was created from a great wealth of research, intimate knowledge and years of experience, is every part of every definition of the word generous. And, it was a joy to read.
— Kara Gebhart Uhl
Great blog .. Perhaps add “ Teaser” to the list ..
A great list and very intriguing.
Kara – just a delightful entry, thanks.
If not for Google I wouldn’t be able to spell anything at all. These two sentences alone contained twenty-five spelling errors.
Donut forget the impotence of spell checker witch solvents a hole pears worth of miss takes two!
Auto-correct has embarrassed me many times. Sometimes I think it is my worst enema.
Ah auto-correct. Do you remember the good ol’ days when you could re-program the dictionary on your computer? I did that once, ostensibly to improve its accuracy. My mom was not amused when she went to type out an important business letter only to find every article replaced by colorful four(ish) letter words like: dam, fork, and spoon. Needless to say, it took a while before I found rest on any object at popliteal height.
Okay, now use them all in a single paragraph that ties them all together and actually makes sense.
The best definition of “wallered out” I’ve ever been able to come up with is this: Think about how a pig wallows in mud. The hole he ends up making is called a wallow. Now add some good ol’ boy in that and you end up with a pig waller. Finally translate that image to a mechanical situation such as a drill bit and hole. The bit can tumble around like a wallering pig and end up stretching out or mangling the hole. It is now wallered out.
Autocorrect is the enema of and understandable massage,
In the history of all literature, this is the first time all of those words appear in one book. I’m proud to say I saw it come together.
Right now there is a half-dozen or so data analysts and coders at the Google search desk going “what the heck happened out there today? We never had more than 7 searches for ‘popliteal height’; or 5 searches for ‘Martin Löffelholz’; or 10 searches for ‘geegaw. in a day. And what the heck is ‘cwtsh’? Did they mean to search for ‘cetsh’?”
I understand all of those words. In fact I have “wallered out” many screw holes and “boogered” up many screw heads.