🜲 Welcome to The Phrontistery: A Thinking Place for Word Lovers
Discover The Phrontistery, a timeless online haven for word lovers founded by Stephen Chrisomalis in 1996. Explore rare and obscure words, linguistic curiosities, and essays that celebrate the beauty and history of the English language. A true thinking place for the modern logophile, curated and recommended by the Moribund Institute.
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5/8/20241 min read
At the Moribund Institute, we celebrate every effort that rekindles curiosity about language, and few do so as masterfully as The Phrontistery, a digital sanctuary for lovers of obscure, archaic, and delightfully unusual words.
Since 1996, Stephen Chrisomalis has been quietly compiling word lists and linguistic curiosities to “spread the joy of the English language in all its variety through time and space.” The word phrontistery itself comes from the Greek phrontistes (“thinker”), and the site truly lives up to that lineage as a thinking place where reflection and intellectual play meet.
Visitors are invited to explore a wealth of linguistic treasures, from the International House of Logorrhea, a 17,000-word compendium of rare and unusual vocabulary, to the Compendium of Lost Words, and even the Glossographia blog, which delves into linguistic anthropology and writing systems. You’ll also find delightful diversions such as Short Scrabble Words, Numerals and Numeration, and a playful section titled A Loquacious Location of Lipograms.
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