Bombastic tone lurks, ready to redden the face of anyone, like me, who decides to hold forth on language in the tones of an expert.

For example ... .

While posting a fine picture on my daily-post PhotoBlog Buffalonya (q.v.) featuring a noisy heron, that I took at the Environmental Cottage on Grand Island, New York, I hit on the word grandiloquent, which I thought expressed the essential nature of the heron and of the island.

I claimed to have coined the word.

I was proud of my post heading -- Friends that fly: Grandiloquent, noisy.

The private houses of long-dead bankers or shipowners, Gothic, Neo-classic or defiantly eclectic, stand on advantageous corners in glorious grandiloquence.

A quick look in my Webster's II confirmed it.

I had erred on the side of grandiloquence.

I had to edit the heading to remove that I now knew was redundant. Grandiloquent is noisy all on its own.

It would have been better to coin a word in earnest. Say, Grandtastic.

Googling Grantastic yields 1,960 hits.

This morning.

The total may grow, for all I know.

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When I made up the word Buffalonya, I was thinking about the alternate way of pronouncing bologna, or baloney.

Come to think of it, fried baloney sandwich is a staple on cafe menus in this region.

It strikes me that I could have simply stopped at Buffalony, a mash-up of Buffalo and NY, but the result, with a strong, too strong, whiff of baloney, would not have expressed my deep love and slight ambivalence for my adopted city.

Stylesheet is one word, or two. The best authorities vary on this question. There are stylesheets for written materials such as books, and there are stylesheets for Web pages at the level of CSS code.

Sometimes stylesheet, sometimes style sheet.

I took my pick.