http://faerye.net/tag/new+word+series 2008-05-27T11:59:04+00:00 Felicity Shoulders http://faerye.net/ http://faerye.net/post/new-word-the-flurry 2008-05-27T11:59:04+00:00 2008-05-27T11:59:04+00:00 <p>Usually I wouldn&#8217;t post another vocab discovery so soon &#8211; I like a little more variety in my blog stew &#8211; but weather-obsessed <a href="http://erdbeeregirl.net/blog/" target="links">grizelda</a> taught me the word <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graupel" target="links">graupel</a>. This is obviously a word whose time has come, and that time is <span class="caps">SCRABBLE TIME</span>.</p> <p><b>Graupel</b> is a form of precipitation formed when water freezes onto existing snowflakes to form balls of ice.</p> <p>Obscure, yet tasty!</p>