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PublishedSeptember 19, 2021
I love parody, satire and sarcasm. Sorry.
In a Word: Different yet the same, they all play off reality — for laughs, revelation or pain.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2021
The forecast: Weird weather words expected
In a Word: It wasn’t that long ago that I was suffering through the swullocking (hot, humid) dog days of summer (the period of July 3 through Aug. 11, so named for the dog star Sirius), hoping for some relief.
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PublishedSeptember 5, 2021
In a word: How to get your new word into the dictionary
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PublishedAugust 29, 2021
Words within words within words
In a Word: Proving that word geeks know no limits, there’s the Russian nesting doll of kangaroo words: the grand kangaroo word.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2021
In a word: Poppin’ Fresh, Larry and other favorite mascots
Attaching a face to a product is a successful marketing technique, whether the face is that of Cap'n Horatio Magellan Crunch, Uncle Ben or Mia the Land O'Lakes 'Butter Maiden.'
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PublishedAugust 15, 2021
Errant apostrophes, extra spaces and Jeopardy masters have the power to peeve
Why, one guy online even wrote: “When my neighbor says, ‘my husband’s and I’s,’ I want to hit her in the mouth.” Easy now, they’re just words.
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PublishedAugust 8, 2021
Did Neil Armstrong really use the ‘A’ word? Quotes and misquotes
In a Word: Lewiston word expert Jim Witherell has also always wondered about the time someone telephoned quotable baseball great Yogi Berra at 2 a.m.
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PublishedAugust 1, 2021
In a word: A celebration of weird words that won’t leave you too wabbit
Relax under your bumbershoot for a spell before things go all cattywampus.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2021
In a word: Stereotypes and the language of aging
One word we should all embrace: 'Activity.' 'We don’t stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing,' warned writer George Bernard Shaw.
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PublishedJuly 18, 2021
COVID-19 also spread new words, phrases
In a Word: The simple act of getting (or not getting) a shot — also called a 'jab' or a Fauci ouchie — has spawned its own additions to our vocabulary. Words and phases include "streetery,” "the moveable middle” and "vacctivists."
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