Words of the Day (from AWAD and Dr. Dictionary)

Whilom and Quondam: Who knew we needed so many words for "former"? But both sound cooler than other thesaurus-listed synonyms, such as anterior, bygone, earlier, erstwhile, foregoing, preceding, etc.

Bloviate: Closely associated with US President Warren Harding. H.L. Mencken said of him, "He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash."