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PublishedJuly 24, 2022
In a word: Myriad examples of Word Guy’s weird week
I knew that 'swashbuckling' meant something like 'engaging in daring adventures with bravado,' but did I know what 'swash' meant? Nope.
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PublishedJuly 17, 2022
In a word: What’s in a word? Often lots of silent letters
'M' keeps quiet in 'mnemonic.' I also found a sign on the internet that warns 'Be careful when following the masses. Sometimes the M is silent.'
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PublishedJuly 10, 2022
In a word: Fun with Merriam-Webster’s ‘Words at Play’
The dictionary's playful website feature puts the antics in semantics.
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PublishedJune 26, 2022
In a word: ‘Loanwords’: absconding with foreign terms
Do you feel a sense of deja vu when you RSVP to an invitation while dining al fresco?
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PublishedJune 19, 2022
In a word: Planet Word Museum is out of this world
Even the bathrooms of this Washington D.C. museum offer insights and humor about words.
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PublishedJune 12, 2022
In a word: Publishing terms: judging a book and its cover
Get ready for blurbs, gutters, leaves, backbones and front matter, if that's not too foreward.
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PublishedJune 5, 2022
In a word: Time to rectify my mistakes: mia culpa
Let’s just say I have lots of 'experience' when it comes to writing.
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PublishedMay 29, 2022
In a word: A Sunday double-header — more sports terms
Former Liverpool striker Luis Suarez was so good at making other players look foolish with his between-their-legs moves that he inspired a poster reading “Suarez can nutmeg a mermaid.”
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PublishedMay 22, 2022
In a word: Albatross, posterize and other sports terms
One of the sports world's greatest attractions is the language it uses. Over the years, words and phrases have been continually coined, appropriated and fabricated.
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PublishedMay 15, 2022
In a word: RINOs, DINOs, jackasses and more political wildlife
In 1870 Harper’s Weekly cartoonist Thomas Nast called one of his drawings 'A Live Jack-Ass Kicking a Dead Lion,' in which the jackass represented the Northern Democrats, and the lion was Lincoln’s secretary of war, Edwin M. Stanton.
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