Propensity For Being Published

My propensity for being printed when I write letters to publications dulled the surprise of seeing my name in the A.Word.A.Day newsletter.

Those of you unfamiliar with A.W.A.D. (even though its changing words grace the bottom right of this very blog), will be interested in knowing over 600,000 'linguaphiles' read it every day. I first found out about it in an article in Smithsonian years ago, and have been an on-and-off-again subscriber ever since.

The word? Cereologist: One who specializes in investigating crop circles.

My slightly truncated letter, in the weekly round-up of subscriber comments:

From: Theresa Winters (desdrataAThotmail.com)

Subject: cereologist

Chicago was recently introduced to the new chain store called Cereality. There, you can partake of the countless variations of cereal and topping combinations, all the while being helped by the resident 'cereologists'.

Someday I'll have to actually visit this shop I've written about.