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TOURNAMENT
Wild Word Friday! My father is an avid golfer. At age 84 he can still come close to shooting his age – last week scoring an 85 on 18 holes. I’m proud of him, and I know one of the disappointments of his life is that I am NOT a golfer or an athlete by…
Small Joys–Dog Toys!
I know that I have just about conquered my Christmas T0-Do list when I get to the dog’s gifts for our Tiffany Pearl, a very good girl (most of the time). Do you buy gifts for pets? Sue
May 2021 Free Book Winner!
Congrats to Judy Crawford Adams who won our May Free Books!! Dr. Seuss is going to pay a little visit to your house, Judy! Please message me your address and I’ll send the books your way! Happy Reading! Sue
OID
Wild Word Friday! To be perfectly honest, OID is not a word. It’s actually a syllable, and it comes to us from the Greek suffix -oeides, which is used to indicate a form or a shape. In other words, OID indicates that something is like something else. That’s exactly how we use this suffix…
FLASH
Wild Word Friday! The word FLASH comes to modern English from a rather unusual source, the Middle English word, flasken or flaschen, which means to rush along with a splashing sound. It’s somewhat of a mystery how a word that initially referred to the sound made by a rushing liquid, morphed into a word that…
SELEDREORIG
Wild Word Friday! Please don’t ask me how to pronounce it, but SELEDREORIG is an Anglo-Saxon word that means “sadness for the lack of a hall.” In Anglo-Saxon days, a hall was a long rectangular community building, usually made of timber and roofed with thatch. Most halls had a centrally located hearth. According to archaeologists, almost every Anglo-Saxon…