Derek's ALIA Blog: Word of the day

Sunday 1 April 2007

Word of the day

Todays word of the day is cybrary. This word once graced the website of the University of Queensland Cybrary but, browsing around today I noticed that it had completely disappeared. The end of a noble experiment in word-coinage, and a lesson for those of us who like to encourage neologisms. See for yourselves.

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What this blog is for

This is a blog which started in 2007 when I was standing for election as vice president of ALIA (the Australian Library and Information Association) - to communicate with members and canvas issues. It also continued during my year as president, which ended in May 2009.

It morphed into a more general blog, and I used it to communicate on a variety of issues - libraries, copyright, the internet, but particularly, just words. Over time, it became a blog mainly about language.

It lapsed in 2012 but I have decided to revive it, and it will be about language and maybe sometimes some other things. Neologisms are unavoidable and an endless source of interest and fun. Talking with a bilingual person, and attempting to learn a language, I have also become more vividly aware of the confusing strangeness of many idioms. I will post about idioms later.

Please promote it to your friends. My short-term goal is to attract a second follower, but I have longer term goals too.