Category Archives: vocabulary
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Fondling Phones, Valuable Words, and the Opies
Leave a commentAugust 9, 2018 by libroshombre
“18 Wheeler” is a video game simulating semi truck driving, but you might beware of overindulging in it, or any …
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Breviloquence, Tosspots, and Uberty
Leave a commentJune 15, 2018 by libroshombre
My parents were children of the Great Depression, and, consequently, so was the vocabulary I inherited, complete with “mazuma” …
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Cryptogamists, Eructers, and Wykyn de Worde
Leave a commentMay 14, 2018 by libroshombre
As Welsh poet George Herbert rightly noted in the 1600s, “Good words are worth much, and cost little,” but sometimes …
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Catgut, Logophiles, and Peter Mark Roget
2February 19, 2017 by libroshombre
Some words sort of grab you, like “catgut.” In our youth we were told that our tennis rackets were …
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Sagan, Occam, and the Muse of Curiosity
Leave a commentDecember 16, 2016 by libroshombre
“All About Words: An Adult Approach to Vocabulary Building” is a solid additional to any bathroom’s library. Mine, for …
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Deep Reading, Lizard Feet, and Tough Cookies
Leave a commentAugust 30, 2016 by libroshombre
Those immersed in the reading life know an engrossing dance of words and concepts can induced by good writing, …
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Bubbles, Words, and Colors
Leave a commentOctober 27, 2015 by libroshombre
“This world’s a bubble,” according to Saint Augustine, and I think he nailed it. I recently read a Slate.com article …
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Pronouncing, Vocabulary Building, and Murals
Leave a commentJuly 3, 2015 by libroshombre
“Pronunciation Errors That Changed Modern English” was a fascinating TheGuardian.com article posted by David Shariatmadari in 2014. He noted that …
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