Word Hoard

I was just watching an interview he did with Don Cheadle talking about a Miles Davis project. Rollins rhymed biopic with myopic. Cheadle has...

This morning my sister, who works nights and gets off work at 6:30 am, and I (who doesn't and normally goes to work at 8:30 am) went to ...

Put these five words in order of importance in the British hierarchy: viscount, marquis, earl, duke, baron I think peerage is an interesting...

I was going through my bedside dictionary (Webster's 7th New Collegiate 1965) probably looking up naughty , from naught/nothing. As my e...

In addition to the start of the American football season, the International Rugby Board (IRB) is staging the Rugby World Cup in France. Rugb...

This morning at work, I was laying out 23 boxes that were headed to Grizzly Flats, CA for a convention and our IT guy, Brent, on his way thr...

There is a local haberdasher in Lincoln, Gary Michaels' Clothiers, that sells suits and such. They have radio commercials in which they ...

girning, noisome, gorse, afrit So I'm reading Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye, a collection of five tales (fairy and otherwise) by A....

I'm sorry that it has been over two months since I posted something new here. The other day I got three different word-a-day emails that...

Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882) Dutch ...

Manubrium. I was watching the English Patient for the first time last week. There is a scene where Ralph Fiennes character points to the noo...

Career comes from the French word for racecourse. The French borrowed their word from Old Provencal for street. I think this is telling of...

Ginger [Late Old English gingifer , gingiber conflated in Middle English with Old French gingi(m)bre , both from medieval Latin gingiber, ...

So my linguistic hubris has laid me low again. In this post 's comments, my arrogance is revealed. Please click the link. I felt that t...

So today is Fat Tuesday-Mardi Gras-Carnival-Pancake Day and the like. What I didn't know about was Co l lop Monday Lent begins tomorr...