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Words I Hate For No Particular Reason

Munch. Why do we need it? We have perfectly good words that indicate eating. Munch sounds like a combination of something an animal would do and something an animal would eat. I suppose that’s somewhat...

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Are you fond of macking, perchance?

The semester draws to an end in less than 2 weeks. It’s so close I can taste it. It tastes sweet. But I’m not there yet. I type this from under a mountain of research papers waiting to be given …...

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Friday’s Word of the Week

One of the joys of reading is discovering that I still need the dictionary.  I seem to have a vocabulary that is large enough to handle most of the words that I encounter in my usual or typical reading...

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Now, I’m not one to preach, but…

It’s time for another Friday Word of the Week. I started this topic to help myself learn more words and to give myself motivation to expand my reading and put more challenging authors into my reading...

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