At Respectful Insolence today, Orac promoted a word coined by one of his commenters: gnoron:

A "gnoron" is like a moron, except that where a moron is lacking in intelligence (something they cannot help, of course) a gnoron is someone of decent intelligence whose own willful ignorance has brought them to an equivalent state of incompetence.

Yesterday we took my son Aran, who's now three and a half, to Legoland, where he got to ride his first rollercoaster, since he's now just tall enough for the smaller ones. As we spun around the track, he leaned against me and shrieked with a mixture of trepidation and glee. Afterwards, he proudly told me, "I scrome (/skro:m/) on the roller coaster," a form that made me sit up and take note, as it's an innovative irregular past form of "scream" that I'm pretty sure he came up with himself, although I can't completely rule out the possibility that he heard it at his preschool.

This article from the BBC magazine talks about the decline of the hyphen. The new edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has apparently removed the hyphens from some 16,000 words, reflecting a decline in how people use them.

The title is not an instance of editorial error, nor the start of a question (e.g., "Won't fixing one thing break something else?" but evidence of a new compound verb with a very unusual structure. I first saw it on a developer's issue board. "Clearing my issue queue. I don't think these fixes are going to go in anyway - won't fixing."

In contrast to the somewhat pejorative use of "Democrat Party" by some U.S. Republicans to refer to the Democratic Party, "Democrat Party" appears to be the official English translation of Phak Prachathipat (????????????????).

A colleague passed on a three-way e-mail exchange discussing the difference between hang and hung. By itself, that isn't all that interesting. The usage guides all give more or less the same instructions. This explanation from The American Heritage Dictionary is typical: