Ann at Random Thoughts of a Disordered Mind, who took this post's photos (via Flickr), writes:
Noah was the Dictionary Guy so one part of the celebration was an “Eat Your Words” cupcake giveway, with each cupcake decorated with yummy icing and a little triangle of chocolate with a word written on it. My word was “Nutrient” and my colleague got “Caloric” - which seemed kind of ironic to be stuck into cupcakes. It was a fun event, though, and promoted the man in a different way.
And the Yale Daily News:
Yale students got a little taste of lexicographical history Thursday afternoon — specifically, “hommony,” “velveteen,” “succotash” and scores of other words courtesy of alumnus Noah Webster – B.A. (1778) — and his Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.
As part of the 250th birthday celebration for one of Yale’s most-read alumni, the Webster’s legacy was written everywhere on more than 700 cupcakes in Commons Thursday. Each of the pastries bore a piece of chocolate iced with words that appeared in Webster’s first dictionary of the English Language. Cupcakes comprised only part of the celebrations, which honored Webster’s role in the modernization of American English. In the end, the festivities were as plentiful and diverse as the bite-sized desserts themselves.
Sebastian Caliri ’12 picked up a cupcake with the word ‘porcine’ “primarily because of the chocolate frosting,” he said.
“I don’t know what porcine means, actually,” Caliri added.
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