Hay isn't all about the speakers. I've just spent a very enjoyable half-hour at the charities' tent with Pippa Ranger, communications manager for Education Action, which has just launched its campaign to find the nation's favourite word here at the festival. Read more about it here.
They have a board up outside the event decorated with dozens of words chosen by festivalgoers - from the sublime (freedom, peace, passion) to the ridiculous (gobbledigook, gallivanting), and even (philofocus, dodihendron) the made-up. It's turned into quite an attraction - people are queuing up to pin their words to the board, and those of you who aren't here can add them, too, on the charity's website. For myself, I'd pick erinaceous, meaning hedgehog-like, a word which I had the pleasure of teaching to David Mitchell this morning (my work here is now surely done). Go add yours to the site, and post them here, too, if you're of a mind.
