Wild Word Friday! I’m sure you’ve been trying to find a word like LEMNISCATE all your life. Well maybe not, but it’s still an interesting word. Take the numeral 8, tip it over to its side and you’ve created a LEMNISCATE. LEMNISCATE is the name for a shape – two circles melded by a tiny waist….
Wild Word Friday! When my family first moved to our little town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, some of the phrases and words used by local folks weren’t familiar to us. One of these phrases was MAKING STRANGE. When you were introduced to a baby for the first (or fifth) time and he began to wail, his…
Wild Word Friday! Recently my friend, Lynn, and I were discussing a topic dear to both of us – words – and she brought up the word FLUSTRATED. She mentioned that FLUSTRATED is a combination of flustered and frustrated and isn’t really a legitimate word, although people have begun to use it so frequently that FLUSTRATED…
Wild Word Friday! Okay let’s learn a word very important in the Aleut language – AHVAVA. Ah-Va-what? On one of our research trips to Alaska for my books, my husband and I stayed with a wonderful Aleut family on the island of St. George in the Pribilof Islands of the Bering Sea. The month of our…
WooHoo! Wild Word Friday! I’m doing something a little different today for Wild Word Friday. We ‘re going to talk about the business of banishing words. Say what? Since 1976, Lake Superior State University, a little college located on the eastern tip of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, has been banishing words. The brainchild of PR genius Bill Rabe,…
Wild Word Friday! Okay, you know that a word which ends in tion must have Latin roots. The Latin form is resolutio. In Middle English RESOLUTION was resolucioun. So you can see that not much has changed since those days as far as RESOLUTION goes. That’s probably good, isn’t it! Speaking of RESOLUTIONs, I think…
Wild Word Friday! What more appropriate word than JOY on this day before our Savior’s birth! This lovely word comes to English from the Old French, joie, and the Latin, gaudium. “…Behold I bring good tidings of great JOY, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city…
Wild Word Friday! Each year my husband Neil and I are blessed to spend some of our holidays with our little granddaughters. I’ve been making doll clothes since October and shopping for TOYS, not only for my own granddaughters, but also for the children who will receive Christmas toys through the Samaritan’s Purse Operation Christmas…
Wild Word Friday! Christmas is getting close, so I thought it would be appropriate to investigate a Christmas-y word – MERRY. I don’t know about you, but for me MERRY brings England to mind as in “MERRY Olde”. MERRY is a very old (or olde, if you prefer) word that comes to us all the…
Wild Word Friday! Now that we’re all probably still eating leftovers, I thought it would be interesting to look at the word TURKEY. I’m referring to the bird not the dork. For some reason, I’ve always thought the word TURKEY had its roots in some Native American language, and it was just coincidental that a country also shared…
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