A few weeks ago my friend Trish asked where I find the words and information for Wild Word Fridays. I’m no expert on words, but I’ve found an abundant number of resources concerning words. In no particular order, I usually find my Wild Words from one or more of these sources: 1. Dictionaries. My office is full…
Wild Word Friday! CHURCH, a wild word? Well sometimes. When I was six years old, my mother told me that I had been mispronouncing the word CHURCH. It was not turch, it was CHURCH and I was old enough to say it correctly. “CHURCH?” I said. “It can’t be CHURCH. Everybody says turch.” “No, Sue…
Wild Word Friday! Do you remember those days when you wiggled and poked and prodded at that loose MILK TOOTH until finally, finally it came out? That night you put it under your pillow, and the next morning the tooth was gone. In its place was a dime or a quarter, depending on the tooth fairy’s mood and pocketbook….
Wild Word Friday! Yes, really, HELEMUTHODOPILATAHA is a word. I think we might agree that it is the wildest wild word we’ve yet featured on our Wild Word Fridays. HELEMUTHODOPILATAHA is one way you would say the number seven if you were speaking in the language of the Wilo people who live in the Amazon basin. Now…
Wild Word Friday! April 1 – April’s Fool’s Day. I’m not sure that this “holiday” is recognized anywhere else in the world, but in the U.S. it’s a great excuse to pull pranks and launch practical jokes. I’m not much into pranks, and practical jokes always seem to backfire, so instead, let’s take a little time to…
Wild Word Friday! Sometimes a word is pure poetry. Take DAYBREAK for example – isn’t that just a great word? And here’s the best news. English isn’t the only language to use a poetic word to depict that first daily glimpse of sun. The Sanskrit word for dawn means having become light. Russian and Polish words for DAYBREAK refer…
Wild Word Friday! You probably already know that our English word LEPRECHAUN was borrowed from the Irish, actually from the Irish Gaelic – Luprachan. In even older Gaelic form (also known as Middle Irish) this word comes from two separate words – lu, which means small, and corpan, which means little body. Now if you put these two Middle…
Wild Word Friday! You knew I’d have to follow up last Friday’s DOG day with a CAT day, right? CATs haven’t been domesticated nearly as long as dogs, and I think most CAT lovers recognize that streak of wild in their pets. A couple of summers ago, my brother and his wife and daughter were…
Wild Word Friday! Few people dispute the fact that the first domesticated animal was the DOG. Anthropologists and archaeologists tell us that the DOG was common in Europe (and in Asia, too) even in Neolithic times. We have the evidence of DOG bones in ancient village sites, but we also have evidence more subtle than that – in our words. In every…
Wild Word Friday! An interesting word, AWRY. To me it seems old fashioned. How often have you heard anyone say that something is AWRY? Actually, the only person I’ve heard use that word lately is my 91-year-old father-in-law, but, old fashioned or not, I think it’s a great word and worthy of use. And, by the…
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