Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Lem and Jeggings

My two favourite words of the day:

1. You already know jeggings, female legwear often sighted this time of year. But your challenge is to use it in writing today. I'm currently writing a report, and have inserted the following: 

  "A 15% increase in the frequency of jeggings has been observed since the same time last year."

2. Lem - if you abandon a book midway due to tedium or annoyance, you've lemmed it. Here's the origin of the term. I've very rarely not finished a read - if boredom strikes I speed-read in the hope of reaching a more interesting section. This is more sensible than the common approach of slowing down when reading something boring, which only exacerbates the problem.

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