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LAP

Wild Word Friday! I’ve had an incredibly busy and productive week, but no time to write a blog post for Wild Word Friday, so this is a re-run. I hope it makes you smile! LAP is a very ancient word that can be traced all the way back to the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language (think 5 thousand years…

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GREASE

Wild Word Friday! Our word today is GREASE.  When I think of the word GREASE, sensory images bombard: the yucky feel of cold bacon grease as I try to scrape it out of a pan, the taste of bear meat (which is very tallowy), and the sight of GREASE congealed on a serving plate.  Hope…

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GARAGE

Wild Word Friday! I’m up to my eyeballs in getting everything ready for a GARAGE sale, so I decided to visit the ancient roots of the word GARAGE. I absolutely love to find that one of our wild words harkens back to Indo-European times, (That means about six thousand years ago!) and guess what? GARAGE…

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LUTHIER

Wild Word Friday! This past week has been wonderfully hectic for me. It included the release of my 6 Alaska books in Ebook format by Open Road Media. (Hooray!) We also had a houseful of company over Memorial Day weekend. (Yay!) Now we’re helping our daughter move into her new apartment. (WooHoo!) I’m telling you…

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ALASKA

Wild Word Friday! Linguists agree that the name ALASKA comes to us from a Native word. There’s some disagreement about which word and even which language. Generally, the consensus is that ALASKA means The Great Land, derived from the Aleut word alyeska, which also means “that which the sea breaks against.” I’m not here to…