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CRAB

Wild Word Friday! All the meanings of the word CRAB – a shellfish with pincers, a louse, an unpleasant and sour person – all come to us along various routes from the same Indo-European wordbase gerbh-, which means to scratch.  At first that may seem like a strange meaning to have spawned all those various…

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PALE

Wild Word Friday! When I hear the word PALE I usually think of the color of my skin. But there is an older nearly obsolete meaning for the word PALE , which comes to the English language from the Latin word palus, a stake. A PALE was a pointed, narrow, upright piece of wood. Generally,…

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Your Pet! Oski!

Celebrate the Last Week of Summer With OSKI! I hope this photograph of Oski brings a smile to your face. It sure made me smile! And this time of year we can use all the smiles we can get. It’s always hard to say good-bye to summer. Oski’s owner Hillari Delgado, who writes comic romantic…

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BELFRY

WILD WORD FRIDAY! When I hear the word BELFRY, I immediately think of churches and the beautiful sound of bells chiming across a sleepy town, so I was surprised to discover that, originally, a BELFRY was a wooden siege tower, used to help soldiers as they tried to scale and break through the thick stone-walled…

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