Dragaera

Ambiguate and other created words (off-topic)

Gaertk at aol.com Gaertk at aol.com
Tue Aug 19 17:28:33 PDT 2003

"Jeremy Tassoff" <kublakhan73 at hotmail.com> writes:

> The Washington Post's Style Invitational once again asked 
> readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by 
> adding or subtracting one letter, and supply a new 
> definition. Here are the 2003 winners:
>
> 3) Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people 
> that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, 
> unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the 
> near future.

Should have been disqualified.  Gary Larson used it in a
Far Side cartoon years ago.

> 12) Decafalon (n.): 

Isn't that changing three letters rather than one?


--KG