Tag Archives: slang

Oh snap!

Posted on Friday, 8 April 2011 by

I’ve always been a bit of a late bloomer – even the slang term used in the title of this post is probably already out of date. But things are cyclical. Just look at how leg warmers have made a … Continue reading →

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Friday’s Word of the Week

Posted on Friday, 25 February 2011 by

One of the joys of reading is discovering that I still need the dictionary.  I seem to have a vocabulary that is large enough to handle most of the words that I encounter in my usual or typical reading material. … Continue reading →

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Are you fond of macking, perchance?

Posted on Wednesday, 5 May 2010 by

The semester draws to an end in less than 2 weeks. It’s so close I can taste it. It tastes sweet. But I’m not there yet. I type this from under a mountain of research papers waiting to be given … Continue reading →

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Words I Hate For No Particular Reason

Posted on Saturday, 7 November 2009 by

Munch. Why do we need it? We have perfectly good words that indicate eating. Munch sounds like a combination of something an animal would do and something an animal would eat. I suppose that’s somewhat silly, considering the fact that … Continue reading →

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