Nearly my word of the week

I was listening to a podcast from the BBC in the car on Thursday. I have one of those nifty FM transmitters that allows me to play my iPod through the car radio. That means I can listen without having to wear headphones or earbuds in the car.

I see lots of people driving with earbuds or headphones. I haven't yet seen anyone driving while playing the flute like this post on Seth Godin's blog but I'll keep looking.

Anyway, on this particular podcast there was a guy on there speaking about his new business venture. He is selling a mobile phone service that allows people to skip past the queues, or lines as the folks in the US say, that are waiting to visit a tourist attraction for example.

Those wishing to use the service send a text to this guy's service and they are sent a time at which they can visit the tourist attraction, pre-authorised to skip past everyone else waiting to get in.

That was simple enough.

During the podcast he was asked a question by Andy Verity from the BBC and in his response he used the word 'sporadity'.

I thought that was an interesting word, a variant perhaps on the word 'sporadic'.

I planned to make it my favourite word this week, following 'incipient'. Alas when I looked it up it does not exist it seems.

I did find Sporadicity though but it doesn't have the fluidity of sporadity.

What a shame.