That's not what this post is about. However, in a blinding flash of synchronicity, it turns out that what prompted it also begins with the letter "V".
Yesterday, I was preparing to launch another in a long string of e-mails to the head honcho of the group for whom I've been doing all this web work. We were putting the finishing touches on a document I'd added to the site, and I was asking him if he thought it needed some additional verbiage to clarify a point.
Wait. Is it "verbiage", or "verbage"? I can't remember.
Off to Merriam-Webster Online (which, in itself, is a tempting topical tangent waiting to happen... but I'll resist).
So, I arrive at MWO, and the proprietors have my word in stock. Sometimes they don't, or it's a special word that requires a subscription, but today I find my word and my word is, in fact, "verbiage". And then I notice it:
Is it just me, or does Ads by Google's choice of sponsors seem just a little out of place on our venerable dictionary publisher's page?
Thank God I wasn't looking up "valentine" at the time. I might have been psychologically scarred.
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