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Your Pet/TYNAN!

Merry Christmas from Tynan!! As you can see, Tynan, a black lab, loves Christmas. His owner, writer Carol Garvin, says that Tynan thinks there’s nothing like unwrapping a “new stuffie” on Christmas morning! Do your pets have Christmas presents under the tree (or in the barn, doghouse, stable…) on Christmas Day? Tynan’s owner Carol Garvin…

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TINSEL!

Wild Word Friday! The word TINSEL comes to the English language from the Middle French word etinceller, which means to ornament with sparkling color.  When I was a child, TINSEL was a very big part of our Christmas, and decorating the tree was something we all did as a family, Mom, Dad, and all us…

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SNECK

Wild Word Friday! Snitch, snatched, have SNECK? I don’t think that would pass muster with most English teachers, but the words are related – not in the sense of tenses, but as “cousins,” descendants of the same Middle English word, snecchen or snacchen – to snatch or grab something. SNECK is a dialectical form that…

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