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Feb. ’13 Free Book Winner!
Congratulations to Nancy Stec, our winner of Michael K. Reynolds’ novel FLIGHT OF THE EARLS. Happy Reading, Nancy!
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LYNCH
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Wild Word Friday! Linguists generally agree that LYNCH is an eponymous word. That means that it originated from the name of a person. The problem seems to be which person. There are several candidates. The first is a James LYNCH Fitzstephen, a mayor of Galway in Ireland. According to some sources, in 1493, poor…
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CHOUSE
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Wild Word Friday! I’d never heard of the word CHOUSE (rhymes with house) until a month ago when I was browsing through a dictionary, and there it was, important enough to be tucked in its own little dictionary niche. Thus I learned that a CHOUSE is a swindler. Used as a verb, to CHOUSE means to trick…