Joyfully Retired

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

Many thanks to Kathy/Bermuda Onion for gathering us together weekly to share the words we’ve discovered in our reading this week. I found several while reading the daily serialized novel of Alexander McCall Smith – The Dog Who Came in From the Cold. 1. treacle: Five minutes in my brother’s company and I’m already wading [...]