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Thanks so much to Kathy/Bermuda Onion for hosting this weekly look at new (to us) words we discover in our reading.
My words this week come from reading His Eye Is On The Sparrow by Ethel Waters.
1. dictys: I thought this snobbish house policy–color discrimination against some of our own people by the dictys–ridiculous and laughable.
Dicty [...]

It’s been one year – 52 editions of Wondrous Words Wednesday. Kathy (Bermuda Onion) started this great weekly feature a year ago. I’m so glad she did. It’s been great fun paying attention to new words as I read.
I haven’t counted up the numbers but, let’s say I discovered just two words a week. Over [...]

Wondrous Words Wednesday is one of my favorite memes sponsored by Kathy/Bermuda Onion. It’s the day we report on the words we’ve discovered in our reading.
I love reading Agatha Christie’s novels but they always contain words that are new to me. I found a couple in Murder at the Vicarage.
1.  defalcation: He wants to go over [...]

Wondrous Words Wednesday is one of my favorite memes sponsored by Kathy/Bermuda Onion. It’s the day we report on the words we’ve discovered in our reading.
These three words are from The Writing of Fiction by Edith Wharton.
1.  ductile: As the soil of France is of all soils the most weeded, tilled, and ductile, so the [...]

Wondrous Words Wednesday is one of my favorite memes sponsored by Kathy/Bermuda Onion. The purpose of this feature is to gather together the new-to-us words from our reading.
This week’s words come from my reading of Edith Wharton’s The Writing of Fiction. I reviewed it on Monday (here).
1.  instantaneity: The effect of compactness and instantaneity sought [...]

Thanks to Kathy (Bermuda Onion) for hosting this weekly tribute to the new words we discover as we read. This week I am paying tribute to Jill at Rhapsody in Books. She has the best vocabulary around. Here are a couple of words from this month’s blog posts.
1.  oeuvre:  This is a story you’ll love [...]

I recently finished a wonderful story, Leah’s Choice by Marta Perry. It’s a story about the Amish and it contained some Pennsylvania Dutch words. Fortunately, the author provided a good glossary at the back of the book. Pennsylvania Dutch is verbal German. Many of the terms were familiar to me because of my German ancestors. [...]