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Today I got an instant message from Shane at theresistancearmy.com. He asked me about the word commoditise. To my surprise commoditise isn’t a real word. Although Google lists almost 20,000 pages with the word, I couldn’t find one dictionary that included it.

I always though the word was legit and that it meant to turn into a commodity. No such luck. The verb that means to turn into a commodity is commodify. I had never heard this word before.

So Shane and I had a brief discussion about what counts as a real word. In the end we concluded that commoditize will make it into the dictionary if enough people use it.

Back to commodify and commodities. A commodity is a undifferentiated product. Like crude oil, pork bellies or gold. It doesn’t matter who you buy your gold from it is still gold. Now no one want’s the products they sell to become commodified. Commodities are much harder to sell at a premium price and therefore, as a seller, you must be much more efficient and that is hard.

Another suggestion from the family. Today from my mom. Beauteous. She suggested this word after hearing a fellow holiday shopper use it. It reminded my mom of her college days when she and her friend would use the word in casual conversation.

Beauteous is just a fanciful word for, you guessed it, beautiful. It seems to be used especially in poetry. Oddly though I couldn’t find any poems that used it to rhyme. It seems like a word that a poet would create to make a rhyming verse work.

I found the coolest site this week and it inspired todays word. The word is Origami and the site is PaperCDCase.com. I know I found the site on one of the popular blog sites but I can’t recall which one- sorry.

Back to the word- origami. It is a Japanese word that literally mean to fold paper. The more accurate definition is the art of paper folding. Just folding paper isn’t origami. Folding it to resemble something beautiful is origami.

For a skilled origami artist I doubt PaperCDCase.com counts, but I think it should. PaperCDCase.com lets you create a CD case out of standard 8/12 x 11 inch or A4 paper. On their site you enter the name of the album, the artist and the track names. Then you click Create CD Case. You get a pdf file you can print out with all the CD info on it and instruction for folding it into simple, effective & free CD case.

It is a very cool site put up by MESH, Michigan Engineering Software and Hardware. “A student group that works on software and hardware projects.”

Today’s word was suggested by my dad. Since yesterday’s word came from my sister, you might have guessed I am getting to spend more time with my family as the holidays approach.

The word is kowtow. It is a verb that means to bow down to or submit to. For example, if you keep doing whatever your sister asks she won’t respect you. You must stop kowtowing.

The term kowtow actually comes from the Chinese custom bowing to your knees and touching your forehead to the ground.