Friday, May 13, 2005
 
Word of the Day: Twee
Today's word: Twee: Overly precious or nice.

I don't normally do words of the day, but I've encountered this word twice already this morning.

Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote:
    (And why don't men garden in ads? I know lots of guys who garden, who are proud of their tomatoes. I sure am. Is it twee? Come by the office and say that to my face!)
Mark Steyn wrote:
    The score gives you a good clue to the main problem: sometimes it’s grand and epic, at others it’s twee and nudging and determined to jolly along the flattest of gags.
Weird, huh?


 
To say Noggle, one first must be able to say the "Nah."