The A to Z Continues

You may remember the vocabulary building project we started a few weeks back (read the original post here).

Well, here are the next three letters:

First up, we have Waif with

Janiform – having two faces

I was particularly taken with the special offer at the hat shop – Buy One Get One Free

Next was mama with

Kreatophagia – the eating of raw meat

No cooker required!

And lastly Gman swore he could tackle the letter “l”

Lalochezia - the use of foul or abusive language to relieve stress or pain

Hell, Fish Worshipping and Idle Spectating

Yes, it’s the next 3 letters in our A to Z series (read the original post here)

First up, Gman:

Gongoozler - an idle spectator

Then some rather foul mouthed characters for Waif:

Hadeharia – The practice of constantly using the word “Hell” in speaking

And, mama is never one to miss out on some fish-related punning as Gman will testify.

Ichthyolatry – the worship of fish

Cod bless
May you live in pisces
Haddock mercy upon us
in these turbot-charged times

Vocabulary Building – Home Ed Style!

Last week we stumble across the superb “A to Z of Unusual Words” collection by the The Project Twins. The collection is described thus: “Bold graphics and visual wit are used to interpret and represent a collection of strange, unusual and lost words.” and you can see the pictures here. Sadly, we were too late to order one of the limited edition sets of postcards, so we thought we would make our own family A to Z. We have made it to F so far.

I kicked off with the letter A. 

Autotonsorialist- one who cuts their own hair:

Waif drew this super-cute bombilating bee:

Bombilate – loudly hum or buzz continuously

And Gman plundered food:

Cleptobiosis – the act of plundering food.

The character in Waif’s next illustration is throwing a maths textbook out of the window!

Defenestrate – to throw something out of the window

Watch out for Gman’s disapproving audience!:

Exsibilation – the collective hisses of a disapproving audience

And Mama was suspended by a single thread:

Filipendulous – suspended by a singe thread

The words were all taken from this list, if you fancy making your own A to Z!