I opened my Word of the Day from Dictionary.com, truly curious about this one: hippophile. I imagined it was either a person who loves big hips or loves hippos, the animal. Well, you may already know this (I did not) but hippo means horse! Therefore, a hippophile is a person who loves horses. Who knew. Hippo is…
My brain is on vacation for a few days so I have nothing insightful or moderately interesting to write about today. I might find something interesting to say about Tango working diligently to lick every speck from the empty peanut butter jar, but yaaaaawn, too much effort. I could make a big tadooo about sitting…
I stopped by the Verizon store yesterday to buy a new screen protector for my smart phone. Two twenty something men helped me and we all started yakking about nothing much. One of them used the term buttload. I joked with him about his language, but he informed me that butt is a real unit…
Here are my favorite words from recent weeks. wamble WOM-buhl, or WAM-buhl, verb 1. to move unsteadily. 2. to feel nausea. 3. (of the stomach) to rumble; growl. An example that comes to mind quickly: The groom wambled down the aisle the day after his wild bachelor party delitescent del-i-TES-uhnt, adjective: 1. concealed; hidden; latent. This word sounds so…
I have loved words since I was a wee child. My Dad, a journalist, and Mom, an English teacher, surely had much to do with that! I was allowed to dress as I pleased, eat whatever, listen to music late into the night,and read under a tree all day, but should I misuse a word,…