Just your average everyday word. Doesn’t it just roll off the tongue 🙂 I found it on a fascinating site www.onelook.com. Every hour this site generates 5 words that get an unusually high number of searches. The site also lists reasons why these words might be popular, at that particular moment. Yggdrasil – pronounced (igdrazil) […]
Amorphous is an interesting word. It means without a clearly defined shape or form. To me this is not a negative. I actually think that this is how the creative mind works. An idea starts out as an amorphous thought – something that is not clearly defined. Then it grows and starts to create its
This is not about the comic strip, sorry. It’s about a device in medieval castles that I have totally misunderstood. I know, why should I worry about not understanding a bit of architecture that was in use 1,000 years ago, well, because I’m a masochist – enough said. Anyway for years I always though that
Yesterday Feb 4, 2013, the Canadian government phased out the penny. I know other countries have done it and survived. Britain obviously, at one time, phased out the farthing and the half penny (pronounced hape-knee) before it went to an entirely new monetary system, which axed the threepenny (pronounced threp-knee), sixpence, half crown, crown and
Ok I want to know who compiles all this data. This is day 33 in the 2013 blog a day challenge and as I was looking for a blog topic, I thought why not write about the significance of the number 33. Why not indeed. Here is more information than you ever want to know
For those of you who do crossword puzzles, you may want to commit to memory this handy list, to save thumbing through the dictionary and maybe spilling your cup of coffee or glass of wine, as a result 🙂 aquiline – eagle asinine – donkey bovine – cattle cancrine – crab canine – dog cervine
I posted about Patrick Moore and his love of stars and cats – maybe one in the same 🙂 He lived with his mother in a 16th century home in Sussex England called “Farthings.” I love the way some people decide to name their homes. I know that it is often just large estates that
I was surfing the internet today looking for an interesting blog topic when I came across a site that listed some of the weirder phrases that people have keyed into the search engines. Anyway the one that stuck, was the woman who asked whether she could legally give her sons all the same name, “Jack,”
I was out for a walk the other day when I stopped at a stop light. Well, right beside me was a gentleman in full highland dress – sporran and all. I said to him – “Campbell?” He answered, “No, Gordon.” I was happy he didn’t say, “MacDonald.” I went on to say, “This must
Here are some more ideas for naming children after cars or their parts 🙂 I just had to explore this idea of choosing names for children a little more. Celebrities often select their stage names for effect – “Lady Gaga” is one. “Madonna” happens to use her own name and some people think that Englebert
