Word of the Week

Only a group of dorks like me would come up with this. To avoid redundancy, I will send you to Tim's blog for an explanation of the rules of the game, but it essentially involves Amy, Tim, and me choosing a new word each week to use in one of 3 very specific circumstances. This past week's word was ochlocracy. My use was in an assignment for New York Stories, entitled by the professor "Your quintessential New York story." Following the rules of the game, which are to post our uses here, I now include an excerpt:

We have a Bell; we have Independence Hall; we have theaters, and museums, and great soft pretzels. We love our sports teams. We will never forget that Philadelphia was the site of the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Convention, and that George Washington lived there during his presidency. We love cheese steaks, cheese fries, and our street cart food that we believe has risen to a level of culinary excellence never to be challenged by the sanitation (or lack thereof) of the vendor. In short, we feel we offer all there is to enjoy in life without the perceived chaos bordering on ochlocracy of New York.