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Vulgarity, Punctuation, and Doris Day
Leave a commentApril 7, 2017 by libroshombre
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer knew vulgarity when he encountered it, and there’s even a selection of them in the section titled …
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Publishers, Malarkey, and Project Gutenberg
Leave a commentMarch 24, 2017 by libroshombre
“Malarky!” was one of my father’s favorite epithets for things he deemed phony or exaggerated. I heard it all …
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Service Animals, Sheepskins, and Marc Antony’s Gift
Leave a commentMarch 23, 2017 by libroshombre
No one at my library school ever mentioned a number of items that would later loom large. For example, …
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Lies, Spies, and Ultracrepidarians
Leave a commentMarch 10, 2017 by libroshombre
Too many ultracrepidarians are running around these days. An “ultracrepidarian” is “someone who gives an opinion on things s/he knows …
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Swearing, Smiling, and Fuzzy Q. Jones
Leave a commentMarch 2, 2017 by libroshombre
Swearing connotes honesty according to a study reported in “Social Psychology and Personality Science” by researchers from the US, UK, …
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Catgut, Logophiles, and Peter Mark Roget
Leave a commentFebruary 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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Curious Cats, Stolen Thunder, and Gold Cards
Leave a commentFebruary 8, 2017 by libroshombre
Besides warming your cockles, purchasing a 2-year Gold Card with a $100 donation to the Fairbanks Library Foundation, means …
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