by Ellary Eddy | Apr 27, 2020 | LEXIVORE, WHATEVS
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...
by Ellary Eddy | Apr 24, 2020 | LEXIVORE
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...
by Ellary Eddy | Jul 23, 2018 | LEXIVORE, PLAY, ETC
The great archetypal activities of human society are all permeated with play from the start. Take language for instance, that first and supreme instrument which man shapes in order to communicate, to teach, to command. Language allows him to distinguish, to establish,...
