Chris Hayes used this word in a recent broadcast and I wondered why I have not used it more. It appears only once in this (Continue Reading)
Chris Hayes used this word in a recent broadcast and I wondered why I have not used it more. It appears only once in this (Continue Reading)
“What could a body do?” That use of the word body was the norm for my grandmother, an Appalachian person born in 1876. In current (Continue Reading)
So easy to ridicule liberals …. or Liberals. They are now taking to saying “Latinx” instead of Latin, Latino, or Latina. Seems silly, right? Just (Continue Reading)
Here is a writer education in English (I don’t think it is her native language but her writing indicates native-like command) who does something I (Continue Reading)
I started to title this bugaloo but thought better of it. I even deliberately misspelled it here. The Bugaloo was a dance originating in the (Continue Reading)
The other day, Clapper, the former CIA chief, said, “He upped and did something.” In my speech it would be, “He up and did …..” (Continue Reading)
My sister-in-law has a granddaughter about 4 who told her that her friends Caleb and Sarah do not celebrate Christmas, they celebrate Harmonica.
Here is a brief discussion on the Urdu list re a particular word: “”””Yes, exactly. Agree with Anjum Altaf Sahab here. The current use of (Continue Reading)
Try to think of a word, a label, an epithet, that can be applied to White people with anything like the force the N word (Continue Reading)
While writing, I wanted to use a word that would be the action of someone intimidated, even frightened, made anxious by something. The word that (Continue Reading)
Definition of nexus (from on-line Merriam-Webster) 1 : CONNECTION, LINK the nexus between teachers and students also : a causal link the nexus between poverty (Continue Reading)
Again I heard a speaker use the term “urban” as a synonym for Black in the ethnic sense. Earlier, the mayor of Memphis had responded (Continue Reading)
Usually Yiddishisms don’t find their way into this blog since only the German element of the language is known to me at all (except ‘balabusta’). (Continue Reading)
I think I have the terms right. Listening to Admiral Stavridis on Morning Joe I noted his extensive use of these. I always thought expressions (Continue Reading)
The word is “raise” used intransitively. As I was fantasizing about having quad 60 machine guns mounted under the hood of my car to deploy (Continue Reading)
For some reason I wanted to know in French the expression “town and gown,” maybe because I’m reading a book in French discussing the university (Continue Reading)
In my family as a kid we used the word breakfast food for cereal even when we ate it at night before bed (a custom (Continue Reading)
In our own time we see the way words or parts of words (and in this one case an abbreviation) survive when the original meaning (Continue Reading)
Define skitter without demonstrating it, i.e. using just words. Great word, chiseling precisely a type of movement. Think of a spider skittering across the floor. (Continue Reading)
This word, so new to me, goes back to 1906 and has an earlier history as meaning ‘annoy’. Its use has sky-rocketed recently with a (Continue Reading)
Long time, no WOD. Here’s making up for it: Everyone remembers the amazing growth of a mountain right out of the earth as we watched. (Continue Reading)
In school, I noticed a lot of the kids were using an old past participle, “swoll”, to describe what we called buff, i.e. a bit (Continue Reading)
Wonky is a new word for me and random is not, but the meaning of both have changed. Wonky means someone obsessed with the minutiae (Continue Reading)