Monthly Archives: May 2025

  1. Clichés, Word Banning, and Cherries

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    May 21, 2025 by libroshombre

                “Keep your eye on the ball” has to be one of baseball’s most fundamental clichés in teaching batting skills, …
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  2. Reduplications, Great Shifts, and Free Speech

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

                Reading my old copy of “Dictionary of American Slang” (DAS), compiled by Harold Wentworth and Stuart Flexner in 1960, …
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    Category: book banning, books, English language, grammar, language, languages, libraries, slang | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  3. Bad Boys, Poison Bookmarks, and Kindness

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

                Lately differences are seemingly everywhere.  Stephen Covey, author of the 1989 hit self-help book, “The 7 Habits of Highly …
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  4. Bees, Theopneustic, and OK

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

                The great Beverly Sills liked to say, “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going,” and that’s certainly …
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    Category: abbreviations, games, grammar, Learning, parts of speech, spelling, texting, texts, vocabulary | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  5. Cockroaches, Melting Hearts, and Mark Twain’s Library

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    May 12, 2025 by libroshombre

    Getting from having a cockroach to Mark Twain’s death-defying miracle started with reflecting on weird idioms, “a group of words …
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