Collecting My Thoughts

BBC – “Parasocial” is the Cambridge Dictionary’s Word of the Year, defined as a relationship felt by someone between themselves and a famo...

1: a piece of armor for the head : HELMET 2: an anatomical structure (such as the horny outgrowth on the head of a cassowary) suggestive of ...

The Merriam-Webster word of the day is Gelid .  Never heard of it, and after reading the explanation, I doubt I would ever use it since I’ve...

What new words or phrases have you learned during the pandemic and the riots? Here's mine: diaper wrap (mask) slave muzzles (mask) ...

These seem to be pronounced the same: jybe. Gibe was the MW world of the day for March 25.  Makes me think I’ve been occasionally misspellin...

I haven’t found many new words lately, but here’s one—I knew the concept but didn’t have a word for it. “Intercalate was formed from the ...

Usually, the M-W Word of the day is familiar to me, so I don’t spend a lot of time on it, but this one I don’t recall using or even seeing. ...

I might be ostentatious, but I'm not an "inkhorn." I prefer plain English. In fact, I'd never heard the word inkhorn used...

1. a. an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy b. a cleverly contrived trick or scheme for gaining an end ...

640 new words were added in April to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. I've been saying one of them incorrectly:  I say, "to-go cup...

More phony words from leftists. ". . . Latinx Pop Culture class take us on a journey into his co-curated exhibit, Tales from La Vida: L...

Metabolomics is the large-scale study of small molecules , commonly known as metabolites, within cells, biofluids, tissues or organisms. ...

I like to blog about "new words." They are only new to me. When I go back and review those posts, I see I never use them as deli...

"The oldest of the Latin sacramentaries or liturgical books. It was erroneously attributed to Pope Leo I and was in use from the fourth...

I knew what the Lectionary is, sections of scripture read in church or privately in a systematic or topical way so that all the Bible is cov...

We--at least I--think we know what an apostle is, at least in the Christian meaning.  But do we really?  It's not the same as a disciple...

Definition:  In a literary work, verisimilitude is likeness to the truth i.e. resemblance of a fictitious work to a real event even if it ...

I came across sacerdotal  in one of the letters of the church fathers, I think it was Irenaeus. This is another word I've seen many time...

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2006/04/word_count.html Global Language Monitor estimates * that—as of this writing—t...