Category Archives: words
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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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Bond, Bananas, and Humperdink Fangboner
Leave a commentMarch 23, 2018 by libroshombre
Nineteenth century poet and reformer Helen Hunt Jackson once wrote, “Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each …
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Apples, Alphabets, and Wine
Leave a commentMarch 5, 2018 by libroshombre
If “Language is wine upon the lips,” as Virginia Woolf espoused, English is sometimes the language of winos. Take that …
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Anu, Dana, and Nero
Leave a commentFebruary 5, 2018 by libroshombre
Today’s word, pneumooultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, came to my attention from A.Word.A.Day – “the most welcome mass email in cyberspace,” according to …
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Anu, Elmer, and Helen
Leave a commentJanuary 29, 2018 by libroshombre
Texas Monthly Magazine’s January Bum Steer awards are a New Year tradition in which the worst of the worst …
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Panties, Crocodiles, and Otorhinolaryngology
Leave a commentJanuary 9, 2018 by libroshombre
Long ago when I ran the public library in Corsicana, Texas, I investigated starting a company to manufacture women’s …
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Cock, Sockeye, and Lady Mondregreen
Leave a commentDecember 21, 2017 by libroshombre
Pliny the Elder could have been describing current times when he declared, “The only certainty is that nothing is certain.” …
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WPTYs, Disinformation, and Fake News
Leave a commentDecember 18, 2017 by libroshombre
Thousands of skiers are probably despondent today, now that “WAxit” was only a runner-up for the Australian National Dictionary …
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Scunners, Squeamishness, and Biting Wax Tadpoles
Leave a commentJuly 4, 2017 by libroshombre
LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 4790-4344 June 8, 2017 The public library’s such an endless source of unexpectedly interesting factoids. …
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