zanzjan | snow day brings new vocabulary

One of the plusses of working at a university is that if the university closes for a snow day, I get the day off paid. Which, since the elder child also had school canceled today, makes for a quiet day at home instead of having to find a way to slog through the nasty mess outside.

I did get a bit of extra sleep this morning, in bits and pieces around fussy babies, phone calls, and the furnace guys coming for the final service (still running, yay!) Somewhere in there I dreamed that I was reading a book and in it I came across a word I didn't know: discrepite. Yes, I woke up and remembered the imaginary word I didn't know, though sadly nothing else about the substance of whatever I was reading in my dream.

It occurred to me after I'd woken up that there was at least some small possibility it was a real word after all, or that it was sufficiently composed of real-word bits to be interpretable. I resolved that I would at some point in the next day or so ping

mlp367, who is my favorite uber-word-geek, and get him to make a pronouncement on what the most logical possible meaning of my new word could be. However, I later dozed off again and in my dream solved my own problem: I was surprised to discover that discrepite was actually a noun, and that it was the word for a large robot whose job it was to carry around dead people.