SWARD
Wild Word Friday! SWARD is one of those words seldom heard in modern English. As a noun, it’s used to designate a grass-covered area or a field. As a verb it means to cover or become covered with grass. SWARD traces its roots to an Anglo-Saxon word, sweard, which means a skin or hide. In…
Your Pet! OSCAR
Beautiful Oscar! According to his mom, Lisa, “Oscar is a spoiled rotten Pomeranian.” We venture to add another word to that description, Lisa – Beautiful! Four-year-old Oscar loves to dress up in fancy clothes and collars. He likes to play fetch, “all the time,” says Lisa. When he stands on his hind legs and waves his…
SIMULACRUM
Wild Word Friday! SIMULACRUM means a counterfeit image, a travesty or sham. The simula portion of SIMULACRUM has ancient roots in the Latin word simul, which means together with or likewise. Crum comes to us from the Anglo-Saxon, crump or crumb. Both versions of the word mean bent or crooked. (Did you know that in…
Good Friday
Galatians, Chapter 2, Verse 20b: I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in Me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. King James Version (Photograph from Wikipedia.)
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