Joyfully Retired

None of the books I read this past week had new-to-me or challenging words. But never fear, I found some gems on the ever loquacious New York Times. In reading a review for the movie, Eat, Pray, Love I came across these words: 1. insouciant: She also falls for Felipe, a divorced Brazilian expatriate, played [...]

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a game I love to play whenever I’m reading. My eyes are always on the look-out for new-to-me words. The following words are all from The Mysterious Mr. Quin by Agatha Christie reviewed here yesterday. 1. inexplicable “A very inexplicable business,” said Mr. Quin, slowly and deliberately, and he paused with [...]

Yesterday I finished reading Work Song by Ivan Doig. I’m going to tell you about it tomorrow. The story is set in 1919 so the language came from that era. Here are some of the words  that were new to me. 1. scatteration: Hooper waved vaguely west. “Someplace out there in scatteration.” From the context [...]

It’s time to tell you about the new-to-me words I’ve found in my reading. See if these are new to you also. While reading Murder Is Binding, I found two new words: 1.  doppelganger: Tricia looked from her customers to the doppelganger in front of her. Doppleganger is an apparition or a double of a [...]

Welcome to our weekly gathering where we take a look at the new words we’ve encountered in our reading.  I have been playing this word game for seventy-six weeks, and this is the first time I haven’t noticed any new-to-me words.  But my daughter, Cerrin, sent me a cartoon that fits the category. Enjoy. Be [...]

There is a new book about to be published that has me curious. It’s Mark Twain’s Autobiography. Only parts of it have been previously published. I was reading about it in The NY Times Magazine of Books. The online article was very interesting but it had me running to my desktop dictionary. Here are the [...]

I found a couple of new-to-me words while reading the graphic novel, Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs. 1. diddicoi: Only half a dollar. I got it off a diddicoi down home. A diddicoi is a gypsy or an itinerant tinker. 2. costermongers: Our street’s full of diddicois and costermongers. A costermonger is a person [...]