My west coast brother has informed me that today is "National Word Nerd Day." It's also "National Static Electricity Day" but I don't know where to go with that. So let's think about words instead.  I am blessed with many friends who I would certainly consider Word Nerds.  Just this morning, for instance, a friend texted me using 'diabolically' and 'diverse' and she was just talking about Wordle.   You must admit those are good words. My spouse is, if possible, even more of a Word Nerd than I am.  The big clue is that one of our favorite games is Scrabble.  I knew for sure though that he was a Word Nerd when, as he was getting out of bed one morning, he announced that he had "achieved verticality."  After I figured out what he meant I rolled over and went back to sleep.  But I did admire his verbosity.