[stylist] Thursday's word on Friday: flotsam

[Brad Dunsé]

This word is more popular than I'd thought :). 
We'll have to give it the "People's Choice A-Word." :)

Brad




On 2/25/2012  12:58 AM Eve Sanchez said...
>You left out that Flotsum was one of Ursula's eels. Eve :)
>
>On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Brad Dunsé <lists at braddunsemusic.com>wrote:
>
> > Evidently I sent Fridays' word Thursday and now vice versa.
> >
> > Flotsam
> >
> > FLAHT-sum
> >
> > (noun)
> >
> > 1. Floating wreckage of a ship or its cargo; broadly: floating debris
> > 2. a.) A floating population (as of emigrants or castaways, b.) An
> > accumulation of miscellaneous or unimportant stuff
> >
> > “The only flotsam found when searching for the Edmund Fitzgerald the night
> > it went down was a wooden rowboat tossed amid the swells of the storm.”
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