Word of the day

Some people like to get daily 'word of the day' emails from online dictionary sites. I use one myself (today, Dictionary.com's is jettison, Merriam-Webster's is audacious and the New York Times' is dank) but this week I've been getting far more enjoyment from listening to Dr Brendan O'Shea (from the Irish College of General Practitioners) on Newstalk's Breakfast show. He's been on a couple of times this week already.

Yesterday he was talking about the dangers facing people suffering from the winter flu epidemic. Today he was appealing for people to stay away from Accident and Emergency rooms unless they were in a really bad way. This is because of the vomit bug that's broken out in 7 hospitals across the country. Anyway, yesterday he used the word common-sensical to describe how we wanted people to think about their symptoms. Today his chosen word was persnickety..

I think he might just be trying to amuse himself.