So much nicer to say than down in the dumps. Too bad I don't remember to use it more often.

She'll be coming round the mountain when she is becoming nearer. Will it make her becoming? Maybe she is already? \_(ツ)_/

In case you've missed hearing this one for the last 6 years, the Hear it! link has been fixed and now goes someplace.

If I understand correctly, line comes from Latin linum, which meant flax. As flax was turned into the thread to make cloth, it also meant linen and the thread to make it. That thread is the connecting thread to today's meaning of line.

"I'm so hungry, I'm hippophagus." Any takers?

Welcome to the Agora, Lynne!

Ah, but is not this punch actually intentionally damaging? Punching the passenger's ticket so it can't be reused? As an additional thought, how did awl become almost strictly for leatherworking? It's a pointy punch, and we use both words, but they aren't interchangeable. While you may have a whole a...

With the upcoming 'cicadapocalypse', this is a timely word. I'd forgotten that the 'chrys' part is from the Greek for gold. A hint to Poe there? Not likely, but I felt like tossing that in.

The innate human distrust of alterity is a problem that has plagued us for all history, as far as I know. Even within the diverse groups it exists, with inner groupings becoming smaller and smaller. Yet we are, as someone much wiser than I said, a political animal, and we need to be with others. As ...

For interesting relatives, see Burglar and Bourgeois. The burglar burgled the bourgeois mansions of the borough?

Happy Memorial Day to one and all!

I just learned that stud is also from the same root. Steed, stallion, stand, stay, stud, etc. Not the dainty palfrey, though.

Still "Coming Soon", so no one to talk to.

I suppose it might be more appropriate to post this under convenient , but as it made me think of this word, I'll put it here. There is a new shop opening in my little city. "Coming soon, Convivence Store!" So, naturally, I tried to make a portmanteau out of that, coming up with a convenie...

Anyone care to come up with a theory on how a root for bath/bath-house also went along to become pain, anguish, and torture? Ouch!