Uneasy Rhetoric

Languagehat found some obscure words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Among them: adversaria, which would be an excellent name for blogs:

adversaria. ‘A commonplace-book, a place in which to note things as they occur; collections of miscellaneous remarks or observations; also commentaries or notes on a text or writing’: Latin adversaria (sc. scripta) things written on the side fronting us (i.e. on one side of the paper), notes, a commonplace book; f. adversus (eg, WHITTOCK Compl. Bk. Trades 482 We never spent an hour more at our repose, than in silent attention to the political adversaria of this benevolent man).