If you ever get so busy you need to tell your friends you can’t make it to their events and happenings, you might feel inclined to tell them, “I’m lost in the woods.” In the metaphorical sense, you’re not lying. It doesn’t matter if you’re literally in the woods, or not. The sensation may be …
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Word Traps
There comes a time in every man’s, woman’s, and child’s life when a word gets trapped in the brain. A trick might help get the word out again. But what is the trick? The words that have been stuck in my head lately are Superfluous and Extraneous. It doesn’t help at all that people at …
Associative Meaning
One fun thing about words is that they can have one meaning by themselves, then a different meaning when combined with another word. Consider the words Wash and Bag. Together they are a wash bag. Simple enough. Separate and alone, they each have a multitude of meanings. A fun and valuable exercise (for your brain), …
Whom
Recently, I was caught up in the vortex of a Writer’s Digest article. It promised a smattering of literary agents and contact info for the same. As I was perusing, I noticed each and every one of them had pronouns next to his or her name. Cute, I thought, but unnecessary. First off, the only …
Combination Words
You know how people want to ridiculously and unnecessarily combine words? You know how they end up making mostly useless words like this: a dream catcher is a “datcher”, a beneficial organism is a “borganism”, and a significant other is a “so”? These didn’t end up sounding the way the person intended. I mean, a …
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