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DAFFODIL NAMES: A BOTANICAL FEAST
In honor of Spring, I forthwith present you a tiny taste of a marvelous botanical compendium called ~ THE CLASSIFIED LIST AND INTERNATIONAL REGISTER OF DAFFODIL NAMES, published by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1961. I picked up this narrow, nigh colorless volume...
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DAFFODIL NAMES: A BOTANICAL FEAST
In honor of Spring, I forthwith present you a tiny taste of a marvelous botanical compendium called ~ THE CLASSIFIED LIST AND INTERNATIONAL REGISTER OF DAFFODIL NAMES, published by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1961. I picked up this narrow, nigh colorless volume...
Shakespeare would have loved this word!
What's in a word? An entire universe! Space, time, and history too. Excuse my ardor, but I am a lover of words. So on Shakespeare's birthday (not sure how anyone knows that since nobody is even certain who he truly was?), I am presenting you with a word I think would...
HOPE JUST AIN’T ENOUGH
At the dawn of a new decade, as I find myself simultaneously reflecting backward and forward in time, the word which keeps repeating in my head is hope. Hope, a signature word for the Obama era, now seems woefully inadequate to the task ahead. We can’t hope our way...
ARE YOU ZETETIC?
Is it all Greek to you? Me too, and I write about it here because the word raises a question – How do words vanish from the lexicon? Times change of course, civilization theoretically progresses, individuals supposedly progress along with it. But in the aftermath, history becomes littered with the corpses of countless words that did not deserve to die.
TO CONVERSE IS TO PLAY
Consider conversation – isn’t it a form of play? Ideas and thoughts and words are bounced back and forth – like a volley in a tennis game. At least that’s how I like to see it.
LEXIVORE 101 FAVE WORDS ~B~
In case you dropped onto this page out of the blue, here is an intro to my 101 Favorite Words. And here are my picks from the letter B... (Oh, in case you're curious, this photo is my own personal blimp. This is how I travel in my daydreams. Batman has his batmobile....
LEXIVORE – My 101 Favorite words ~ INTRO
Having claimed myself a lexivore, or one who eats words like bon-bons, I herewith begin to unwind the reel of my 101 favorite words…which will include definitions, etymologies and usages. Of course some of these words really don’t need definitions but are included...
