In my original post on "We are the media," under the influence of some unknown mental disease, I used the word "stintingly" to describe Dan Rather's self-image of his objectivity. Well, down the memory hole--I've since rectified it to the (more) correct word, which is, of course "unstintingly."

I looked up the word "stintingly," and found only a reference to the behavior of a stint, which, it turns out, is "any of several small sandpipers of the genera Erolia or Calidris, of northern regions." Somehow, I don't think that Dan the Newsman was behaving the opposite of this.

English is a funny language. We have several words like this--they only exist in the negative. For example, how do you keep your employees gruntled? Beats me.

Oh well, back to posts that are more ane...

Actually, trying to think of those words wasafun little game. My mother and I thought of a few of them while watching some of the bowl games today. Here is a partial list of some of the more commonly used words that we uncovered:

dismissed

disgusted

discouraged

dismayed

The list goes on and on, but I don't want to post anymore in case anyone else is having fun trying to recall them.