As ever, a wonder to watch you folks create these things. Would that I had the aptitude to join in. Sigh.

Wasn't it supposed to be 14 lines, though?

Today's word of the day: • pica • Pronunciation: pai -kê • Hear it ! Part of Speech: Noun, mass (no plural) Meaning: A craving for unusual foods without (obvious) nutritional value, including a craving for non-foods, such as clay, paint, or wood. Notes: Pica is a lexical orphan with no derivations o...

Monday's missing word: • orthogonal • Pronunciation: or- tha -gê-nêl • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: 1. At right angles, perpendicular (to). 2. Totally irrelevant, not at all germane to some point under discussion. 3. Statistically unrelated or independent. Notes: Today's word comes fr...

Today's Good Word: • heuristic • Pronunciation: hyur- is -tik • Hear it! Part of Speech: Adjective & Noun Meaning: 1. Practical, hypothetical, based on an educated guess that serves as a practical guide in the investigation or solution of a larger problem. 2. Related to a "hands on" te...

The GWoTD for July 30: • echolalia • Pronunciation: e-kê- lay -li-yêl • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun, mass (no plural) Meaning: The repetition of words spoken by others, common among small children learning to speak and people suffering from certain types of mental disorders. Notes : Although echol...

Gull the bird comes from Celtic, and from what I can tell, was used to mean the bird. Why, the sources I use most do not tell us.

Etymonline says that it used to be spelled cullibility, which might make it related to cull, which is from Latin.

It's a long shot, and I'm no professional, but it sounds good to me.

Cull, as in to pluck out inferior things; and gull, one who swallows inferior things hook, line, and sinker.

A bit of an anachronism, but here's today's GWoTD: • resurrection • Pronunciation: re-zêr- rek -shên • Hear it ! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. Returning to life after death, rising from the dead. 2. Bringing back from inactivity or oblivion, as to resurrect a long-forgotten idea. 3. (Capitalized)...

July 27: • sedulous • Pronunciation: se -jê-lês (US) or se -dyu-lês (UK) • Hear it ! Part of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Diligent, assiduous, zealous; applying oneself unflaggingly to a task. Notes: Today's Good Word may be used as an adverb with the proper suffix, sedulously . Do not confuse it with...

A reply from an American:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14285853

Here's an update from the Beeb:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14201796

It's user submitted words and phrases.

Here's a slight debunking from the Economist:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/07/peeves

Taken up and treated by the Good Doctor here.

Curious that each of the three definitions has at least one word that rhymes: toil, roil, turmoil, soil.

in current usage does anyone think that a male could be gussied up? Or is this strictly for women now?

For more on this concept, see Necessary and Sufficient Condition at Wikipedia. There's a decent article on these logic terms.