Sample Blind Tasting for free
Read sample chapters of Blind Tasting at Smashwords
Now available as an audiobook! "Great book, a must read" -- Rebecca's Reads (five stars)
Word of the Day
LEGERDEMAIN (Noun, English) Skilled, dexterous use of the hands when performing magical tricks. Has also taken on a pejorative meaning of deceit or trickery. Note: Cited originally in English during the 16th century. From the French phrase 'léger de main' (light of hand).
-
Recent Posts
-
Recent Tweets
- RT @canadiangirls99: “Anti-vax”is a word used by low information extremists because they are unable to debate key issues. 21 hours ago
- RT @SalomeSibonex: Somedays I’m beaten down by bad news and plagued by overwhelming evidence of grave historical errors recurring. Other d… 22 hours ago
- RT @Kevin_McKernan: Dank Covid Meme-athon Add your own 👇 https://t.co/NlPMC4HcJz 22 hours ago
- RT @Kevin_McKernan: The Story of the Ghost. Antibodies to an extinct virus… Slow Clap. twitter.com/gerdosi/status… 1 day ago
- RT @zerohedge: Union Pacific Bashes LA's Social Justice Reform, Threatens To Leave City Amid Soaring Train Thefts zerohedge.com/political/unio… 1 day ago
- @zerohedge link won't load for me 1 day ago
- RT @cliftonaduncan: From a friend who is a producer: "Yup. And off broadway commercial is even worse. My GM told me the other day that mo… 1 day ago
- RT @gerdosi: One more reason to keep pushing back on vaccination if you were infected. “Beta and Delta infection trigger responses with sig… 1 day ago
Topics
Top Posts
Archives
Word Travels
Tag Archives: dictionaries
Word Purge
There is an online post at the British newspaper Guardian reporting on words to be excluded from new editions of dictionaries. The post invites readers to list their own choices for words they’d like removed from the English language. My … Continue reading
Posted in Semantics, social context of language, Word Usage
Tagged deleting words, dictionaries, word usage
Leave a comment
Word Travels 