I heart word-formation

On a hotel bill Joe got on his recent trip to England:

Non-Vatable - awesome!

taking the gold in the olympics of blending???

The headline says "Redistricting? No, Fitzwalkermandering". Okay, for those of you who are not Wisconsinites (I'm sorry), Fitzwalkerstan (another gold) is the name for our state under the insane politics of the day - for the Fitzgerald brothers (Senate Majority Leader Scott and Assembly Speaker Jeff) and our own governator, Scott Walker. But then there's "gerrymander," which the article says (and the always trustworthy Wikipedia verifies) comes from another governor, Eldrige Gerry of Massachusetts, who in 1812 redrew a legislative district in the shape of a salamander to benefit his delightfully-named Democratic-Republican Party. So blend on top of blend, wahoo!

"almight"

OK, it's a word kind of day, I suppose. There's a great (newish, I think) band called Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins. In their song "The Charging Sky", a nice lyric about religion (read the whole thing here). What struck me was this:

And it's a surefire bet I'm gonna die
So I'm taking up praying on Sunday nights
And it's not that I believe in your almight
But I might as well, as insurance or bail.

My interest, for the moment, is not in this popular statement of what philosophers call "Pascal's Wager" (summarized here), but in "your almight". Is it a back formation from almighty? Would make sense, surely. In flipping through a few g-hits (hey, when did THAT word die out?), I find basically misspellings of the adjective.

I heart word-formation

OMG I just logged into Blogger and saw this notice:

You may have seen stories in the news recently about malware on Blogger, such has this one from the BBC or this one from Committee to Protect Bloggers.

Malware? Malware? wow. (But rest assured, Blogger was not affected by this malware.)