Joyfully Retired

Wondrous Words Wednesday is a game I play whenever I’m reading. My eyes are always on the look-out for new-to-me words. If you don’t mind, I’m going to take a different approach this week. While reading online I stumbled upon a good discussion about banned words. It caused me to focus, not on new words, [...]

I love keeping track of the new words I find in my reading. I find them everywhere, not just in books. Here’s some I found this past week: I was reading an interesting article, The Next Big Thing in English: Knowing They Know That You Know about a new theory on how and why people [...]

It’s time to share my new words for the week. These all came from Best Food Writing of 2009, an article by Timothy Taylor, The Cranky Connoissur. 1. appellation: Beef and pork identified by breed and farm, just as a wine might be by a variety and appellation. Appellation means 2. oenophiles: Beyond the oenophiles, [...]

What did I do before I started playing this word-hunt game every Wednesday? I have managed to find new-to-me words every single week for over a year. I see them everywhere. I must have been reading in a fog all those years. Here’s what I found this week. 1. collation: “I’ll go for water while [...]

Thanks to Kathy/Bermuda Onion for this engaging game we play each week. We gather together all the new words we’ve discovered in our reading and share them with you. This week I found a bunch of new words in an editorial I was reading in the online New York Times. The writer was talking about [...]

Wednesday is Word Day, Wondrous Word day to be exact. Kathy (Bermuda Onion) is our hostess for this weekly gathering. Today I want to share some words I discovered in various places. 1. resplendent: I was reading a newspaper article this week about the fact that musicians won’t be singing their nominated songs at the [...]

Wednesday is the day I gather the new (to me) words I’ve come across in my reading. Wondrous Word Wednesday is hosted by Kathy/Bermda Onion. Often, as I’m reading, I can figure out a new word from the context of the sentence. Here are a couple of examples from The Sittaford Mystery (reviewed yesterday) where [...]