I knew the Brits were reserved, but passive aggressive insults via reference books?

Let it be known: I love the OED.

That’s Oxford English Dictionary for the uninitiated. All you really need to know is that the OED is the quintessential source for all things awesome – if those things are word origins, definitions, and/or guides for proper usage.

The physical form of the OED is a series of massive tomes; but as technology is wont to do, it has brought us a nice, little (see: abridged) version for our computers. I use the mac widget.

And, well, today the OED and I had an awkward run-in. While looking up some synonyms for greedy (I favor avaricious, by the way), I found this little gem:

CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD
greedy, acquisitive, covetous, avaricious, rapacious, gluttonous
The desire for money and the things it can buy is often associated with Americans. But not all Americans are greedy, which implies an insatiable desire to possess or acquire something, beyond what one needs or deserves (greedy for profits).

What the hell? Ironically, I can’t really find the words necessary to describe the feelings that this passage impart.

Perhaps you have some?

Words

Words are pretty important. Or at least I’d say so. Just don’t proofread my previous posts.

Anyways, I used to work on two programs for a political campaign. One is a custom version of Salesforce CRM known as ComMITT, and the other is built in Flex but integrated with the former and known as QuickComMITT. Bonus point if you know for whom.

Moral: I no longer know how to spell commit. At least, not the first time through.

Special thanks to Firefox spellcheck and my OED widget.

And Marisa for proofreading this. Pfft.