June 18, 2008
A vacation haiku
Time to take a break—
summer vacation is here.
Back to blogging soon.
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June 13, 2008
Say it with me: “paraskavedekatriaphobia”
Do you suffer from paraskavedekatriaphobia? If so, then today is not your day.
For those of you unfamiliar with this 11-syllable word that sounds like some intestinal disease you’d get from drinking bad water, paraskavedekatriaphobia is fear of Friday the 13th—not to be confused with triskaidekaphobia, which is simply fear of the number 13.
That’s my vocabulary lesson for the day.
Happy Friday the 13th, everyone. Watch out for black cats.
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June 5, 2008
When’s the last time you used the word “rapscallion”?
The talented (and hilarious) Deep Friar wrote a post a few weeks ago that included the word “kerfuffle.” We all got a big kick out of his word choice, and it got me thinking about other old timey words that have fallen out of use in today’s lexicon.
Here’s a list of outmoded words and phrases that I think we should bring back:
- Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
- ragamuffin
- nincompoop
- Heavens to Murgatroyd!
- dunderpate (a favorite of C. Montgomery Burns)
- mosey along
- bumfuzzled
- kerfuffle
- the bees knees
- diddley-squat
- rapscallion
- ruckus
- If I had my druthers …
Please share your favorite old-fashioned words and phrases as a comment. I have a hankerin’ to read what you have to write!
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