Tue 4 Dec 2007
The words of the day, today, come from a favorite book of mine, Gulliver’s Travels:
Lilliputian \lil-lee-PUH-shun\, adj. Extremely small; tiny; diminutive.
Lilliput (and the lesser known Blefuscu) are, according to Mr. Swift, two South Indian Ocean islands inhabited by tiny people who are “not six inches high”. Brobdingnag, on the other hand, was an island entirely peopled with giants. And that brings us to the other Ryan Byrd word of the day:
Brobdingnagian \brob-ding-NAG-ee-uhn\, adj: Of extraordinary size; gigantic; enormous.
