The WWT Returns

Welcome Back!  Or just Welcome!  ... to the new incarnation of Weekly Word Trivia!  To those of you not privy to the first version, this is a major change: a move into the 21st century, you could say (though the first version began in 2000).  This vocabulary challenge/questioning about words and our language started as a very basic e-mail exchange: I'd send an e-mail with the word of the week, people would send back their guesses as to what the words meant, and I'd compile the best and funniest responses, along with the right answers, and send it back to the list.  I'm hoping that this blog will be, well, a lot easier for me, but also a means to further the linguistic examination and exploration.  You'll get to read everyone's answers, and comment on whatever you want!  

But note: this only works (that is, it is only fun for me, and therefore for you) if people respond with their trivia guesses.  You don't have to respond every week; you don't have to be right; you don't have to be funny.  Maybe you even want to go for the "balderdash" strategy and try to throw everyone off of the correct definition with your well-crafted piece of b.s. (hint: use "of or pertaining to" in your definition).  Of course, if you give a really stupid answer, everyone will know, because this is a blog and the comments are public.  You will have to decide if this is something you are willing to risk (I clearly am, because I am writing this whole darn thing).

Look for these posts to come:

• The last issue of the old WWT to start us off...how much do you remember?
  
• New words of the last 4 years
• The archives! - I hope to get all of the old WWT issues up on here eventually, assuming that I can find them

Suggestions welcome: format, title, words, topics all open for comment!