resonant: Ray Kowalski (Due South) (Default)
resonant ([personal profile] resonant) wrote2003-07-24 09:02 pm
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Nitpicking, again.

Word I don't ever want to read again in a story:

Obsidian.

Thank you, and goodnight.

[identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com 2003-07-24 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I swear I am not making this up:

Oxford English Dictionary. Ebon (eh-bahn) Adj. 1) Word used by fanfic writers to describe something "black" in just a shade more irritating fashion.

You can't make up stuff like that. *nods*

Actually, it is in the OED; Shakespeare, Spenser, Dryden, and Keats all use it (as well as Terry Pratchett, which is where I picked it up). It's just really annoying, as a word. How hard is it to add the Y?

*grins*

*will stop spamming this post now*