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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--quisquilian This week's theme: insults. quisquilian (kwis-KWIL-ee-uhn) adjective Worthless, trifling. [From Latin quisquiliae (waste, rubbish).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "It is painful to attack a writer as young in years and in time spent working at his craft as Chris Columbus, yet what are we to make of someone whose credits to date include Reckless, Gremlins, Goonies and the quisquilian subject under examination here?" Harlan Ellison and Leonard Maltin; Harlan Ellison's Watching; M Press; 2008. X-Bonus The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards. -Anatole France, novelist, essayist, Nobel laureate (1844-1924)

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