Accurish

Argh!

You know what I hate? I hate when I invent something completely new, something which might actually change the world at least a little bit…

…and someone else has already beat me to it.

So I’m talkin to pal DT earlier today (and, no, there’s no truth to the rumor that he’s actually a personification of Delirium Tremens, although, yes, I did enjoy a delightful bottle of riesling this weekend, the first time I’d had a riesling since the late eighties and, oddly, this bottle was from the same winery as that last bottle, up in Washington state), and I was professing my love for wikipedia.

There. I said it. I don’t care. I love wikipedia. So helpful, so useful, so omnipresent and damn near omniscient. And if it’s not always one hundred percent correct, what of it? Does that not make it the perfect resources for our times?

Of course it does.

Anyhoo, I was defending wikipedia and pointing out that it might not always be accurate but at least it was, you know, accurish.

We both started laughing. It was one of those times when you have no idea what’s about to come out of your mouth and you’re therefore just as surprised as the other person. In my case that happens quite a bit, as you might expect, but rarely is it this pleasant.

Accurish.

I like that.

Sure I’d never heard of it before, cognizant that it was an obvious cousin to truthiness, I began to wonder if I’d, in fact, invented it, mayhap even coined it.

And if so, if there was any money to made in trademarking it.

Google the rescue!

Alas, poor accurish, you’ve been with another. You harlot.

A Google search turns up four hits, one of which seems to be in Norwegian, one of which seems to be name of a bracelet and two of which seem to be the same hit: the exact same meaning, posted on a message board back in November.

Crushing disappointment.

Accurish. Still a hell of a word. The tramp.

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UPDATE: Ah, what the difference a few days make. Here's what happens if you Google "accurish" NOW--

Sweet, sweet search results, how I do love ye.

Comments

[DT]

>So I’m talkin to pal DT earlier today (and, no, there’s no truth to the rumor that he’s actually a personification of Delirium Tremens)

Sadly, this may be the nicest thing you have ever said about me. But, being the optimist that I am, I shall take it as a very good thing indeed that people don't equate me with having bugs crawling all over them.

And any previous claims that I have, in fact, been the personification of such have been, at best, half-truths. Or, as some might say, not totally true, but at least accurish.

[sam]

Accurish is a great word, and it is your word. Who cares if it sort of sounds not unlike a Norwegian breakfast cereal . . . uh, bracelet?

I love to make up new words. I used to not, but while watching a debate not too many months back I heard local politico Harold Ford Jr. describe the situation in Iraq as "bogdownedness." From then on I've decided to make up words as the situation arises, and I may quite like using yours.

And finally, I too love the Wikipedia. I find it often helpful and quantifiably accurish at least a certain percentage of the time.

[Theresa]

LOve it! Ranks right up there with rainbrella and stinkeriffic in my "These Should Be Words" dictionary.

[xixi]

The wikipedia says that i wrote an autobiographical novel called the Bell Jar. Accurrish indeed.