Wednesday Words: My Fabulous Friequaintances
Ever wanted to invent a word? Have you contemplated an object, concept, or process that doesn’t have an exact word to describe it? With a teen and tween in my family, we have some rules about social media. Since what…
Wednesday Words: The Perfect Comeback
“The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can’t ignore it, top it; if you can’t top it, laugh at it; if you can’t laugh at it, it’s probably deserved.” – J.Russel Lynes The…
Wednesday Words: Are You Game?
I am outnumbered in my family! Living with three boys, I am often sucked into playing a strategy board game in which I feel like I’m plotting a geometry equation or preparing for the next World War. If the choice…
Wednesday Words: Shakespeare Shares
How many people can say that they coined phrases that will still be in use over 400 years after they introduced them? Only a handful, I would think. But I have discovered that William Shakespeare is to credit, or blame,…
Wednesday Words: What’s in a Name?
“What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet It’s a beautiful line from an amazing play, but is it true? Would we still be talking about these star-crossed lovers…
Wednesday Words: A Herd of Labels
It’s a herd of cattle, a school of fish, a pride of lions, a gaggle of geese, a flock of seagulls, and a of whales. Who knows? Another oddity of the English language is how many words we have invented…
Wednesday Words: It is Lite or Light?
You will never catch me pulling into the “Krazy Kat Kar Wash.” I don’t care if my vehicle looks like it emerged from a mudslide or the only thing visible through my front windshield is the collection of insects amassed…
Wednesday Words: A Case of the Quirky
I was listening to preacher James MacDonald recently and he commented that his children used to ask silly questions that have to do with quirky words. His two examples were “Why is the word abbreviation so long?” and “Why is…
Wednesday Words: Tom Swifties
The First Tom Swift Book Thanks to David Lubar and his book Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, I discovered a couple of years ago the fun of making up Tom Swifties. Tom Swift was a character from a book series published…
Wednesday Words: Fun with Phobias
I should state at the outset that if you have a phobia, it isn’t fun. I know someone who has ranidaphobia, and the one time a frog got into her house, it was not pleasant. Having said that, the names…