Tag Archives: thumbs

  1. Thumbs, Maxims, and Regret

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    November 6, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Doctors say that our thumb is our master-finger and that our French word for it, ‘pouce,’ derives from the Latin …
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    Category: essay, illness, pandemic, plague, translation, vaccination, writers, writing | Tags: , , , , ,

  2. Dates, Thumbs, and Popeye

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    February 1, 2017 by libroshombre

      Horace Walpole once wrote, “I sit with my toes in a brook,/ And if anyone axes forwhy?/ I hits …
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    Category: anniversaries, reference books, Uncategorized, words | Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

  3. Thumbs, Purring Hyoids, and Zsa Zsa Gabor

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    December 28, 2016 by libroshombre

    We should feed our cat “as much as it will eat in thirty minutes, twice a day,” says a book …
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    Category: cats, language, languages, libraries, speech, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

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