Sunday Morning Happenings

This morning I dropped in by my uncle’s convenience store to lend him a hand (preferably my left since I’m right handed). It was quiet like most Sunday’s are so I decided to peek in my inbox with the sole intention of of peeking and NOT word-pressing (you now see how that went) and surfing [...]

Anthropomorphic Nouns

The following was copied from an e-mail my uncle recently sent me. Enjoy! The English language has some wonderfully anthropomorphic collective nouns for the various groups of animals. We are all familiar with a herd of cows, A Flock of chickens, A School of fish And a Gaggle of geese. However, less widely known is: [...]

Word of the day: Lollapalooza

This one sounds like one of the words my five year old brother made up but what it actually means is: Lollapalooza noun, Slang 1.  an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. Origin: 1900–05, Americanism ;  origin uncertain Source: Dictionary.com 2.   an annual music festival featuring popular alternative [...]

Word of the day: Clandestine

The word of the day, or more like word of the night(I’m terribly late today), is: Clandestine – adj. kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit: she deserved better than these clandestine meeting. <ORIGIN>mid 16th cent.: from French clandestin or Latin clandestinus,  from ‘secretly’.   Source: The New Oxford American Dictionary

Word of the day: Bra Burner

This says it all. Okay I searched for a random word begining with ‘Br’ on my Kindle and this is what caught my eye! I mean you’ve got to admit it sounds a bit funny but here’s what it means: Bra burner -[Informal] a feminist percieved as a militant in the struggle for women’s rights: [...]