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April 18, 2007 06:24 PM EDT -- Hey - you may or may not already know this, but I'm out on vacation for the next week with Laura. I'm writing this from our hotel in North Jersey, which does indeed have wireless access, mostly . . . more
July 24, 2007 11:04 PM EDT -- Introducing:  I WRITE AND I TAKE PICTURES BECAUSE IT BRINGS ME PLEASURE   So you like to write or you like to take pictures.  I WRITE AND I TAKE PICTURES BECAUSE IT BRINGS ME . . . more
Pearl Mongers
by Vinay Benjamin
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March 23, 2007 12:49 PM EDT -- My eyes, pearl mongers disburse, Liquid globes from lachrymal sacs, Sprung out with emotional stirring, Augmenting expressive depth. A gifted twosome with thinking their own- Seem sophisticatedly inclined, . . . more
August 31, 2007 01:47 PM EDT --    Vamoose     The verb to vamoose, "to leave hurriedly," has a full range of tenses and grammatical moods in English, and it can be used with all grammatical persons: . . . more
March 29, 2007 10:00 PM EDT -- I'm going to list a few of my favorite people every week.  They may or may not be in my group of people.  I find interesting articles all the time.  However, this week these 5 are my . . . more
June 29, 2007 02:36 PM EDT -- VENOM Anyone who has ever been lovesick will appreciate the etymology of the word venom. Venom descends from the Latin word venenum, “potion, drug,” which could originally be used to designate . . . more
November 28, 2007 01:43 PM EST -- A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
June 11, 2008 02:32 PM EDT --   A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL . . . more
July 18, 2008 11:18 AM EDT --   COUPON A Roman might have had difficulty predicting what would become of the Latin word colaphus, which meant "a blow with the fist."   As the variety of Latin spoke in . . . more
July 06, 2007 01:59 PM EDT -- UGLY The standard sense of the adjective ugly, “unsightly,” becomes figurative in the common expression an ugly temper. Regional American speech shared this figurative sense and makes it . . . more
September 07, 2007 03:40 PM EDT -- barracuda Barracuda are fierce-looking fish that live mostly in tropical seas like the Caribbean. They have a projecting lower jaw, and their large mouth holds two rows, one behind the other, of fanglike . . . more
December 05, 2007 01:22 PM EST -- ACRIMONY Noun   Bitter, sharp hostility, especially in speech.   Some conversations I have heard in our own country sound like old records, long-playing, left over . . . more
January 30, 2008 03:28 PM EST -- IRREGARDLESS Irregardless is a word that many people mistakenly believe to be correct in formal style, when in fact it is used chiefly in nonstandard speech or casual writing.   The word . . . more
July 02, 2008 02:20 PM EDT --   SCHLOCK A good number of English words borrowed from Yiddish (a variety of German with an admixture of Hebrew and Slavic elements) are recognizably of foreign extraction because they begin . . . more
March 26, 2007 04:13 AM EDT -- My husband and I owned a little Ford Falcon for awhile and I loved that car but we had a wagon we needed to haul around our growing family and my husband had his work truck.  My brother Don had been . . . more
August 08, 2007 03:10 PM EDT -- VERBIAGE The term verbiage has two basic meanings: “an excess of words for the purpose; wordiness,” and “the manner in which something is expressed in words.” It is occasionally . . . more
August 10, 2007 03:24 PM EDT -- SARCASM A sarcastic comment can cut to the quick, and from an etymological point of view, sarcasm is quite literally “cutting wit.”  The English word sarcasm comes from the Greek word . . . more
August 30, 2007 03:30 PM EDT -- A DEFINE-A-THON is the new word game sensation created by the Editors of the American Heritage ® Dictionaries. Why are they taking us beyond the spelling bee? Because being able to SPELL a word doesn't . . . more
September 05, 2007 11:00 AM EDT -- COMPLEMENT/COMPLIMENT Complement and compliment, though quite distinct in meaning, are sometimes confused because they are pronounced identically.  As a noun, complement means “something that . . . more
September 14, 2007 02:02 PM EDT -- hazard  The modern meaning of the English word hazard, "risk" or "danger," is a development dating from  the 1500s. Hazard was originally the name for a dice game popular . . . more
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