Via the comments on my Bob Hazen book post, I found George D. Turner's thoughtful, fun geoblog Eclectic Plagiodoxy. You know I'm going to be intrigued by a title like that. Here's the beginning of George's explanation of that polysyllabic wonder of a title:

The word "plagiodoxy" came to me in a familiar place: in front of a classroom of introductory geology students. I was trying to connect the sometimes arcane jargon of the science with ordinary experiences the students were familiar with. In this case, I was working my way through the mineral group called feldspar, trying to make semantic connection with the two sub-groups, orthoclase and plagioclase. So I was chatting about ortho-dontists, ortho-pedists and ortho-doxy. I ended up saying something like "I suppose if you wanted crooked teeth, you would go to a plagiodontist. If you wanted crooked bones, you would go to a plagiopedist. If you wanted to learn to think on the slant, you would go to a plagiodox institution. That's called 'college'."

Go and check out the rest -- I think I like the way this guy thinks!

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