Doc mentioned. In the etymology that SH is a strong "letter," but we are taught it as two letters. In learning Hebrew i learned three similar letters transliterated s or sh. Two Hebrew letters look very much like a "w" with a dot over one or the other of the end lines. I would im...

Slava, back to the peri- prefix for "around." The experts all think my name comes from pear trees, not fromour being men aboout town!(?)

The Tower of Babel was likely a ziggurat. Sometimes spelled ziqqurat, it refers to the ancient temple towers that looked somewhat like the Meso-American ones. Likewise, Jacob's ladder may have been such a ziggurat as a stairway to and from earth to heaven. I suspect the inherent stability of such a ...

My favorite and most used quote from Alice...

Oddly for me, I findmyself agreeing that liminal is a beautiful word. usually words with a short I don't hit me as beautiful. I prefer longer vowels, similar to classic Castilian Spanish as taught in schools rather than street talk.

The Biblical Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet who penned the "appendix" to his prophesy which is named "The Lamentations of Jeremiah," or more commonly called just Lamentations. He was lamenting the fall of Jerusalem and the ensuing Babylonian captivity.

I'm still struggling with the pronunciation to rhyme with dime, which I first remember hearing less than 20 years ago. I had always called it to rhyme with dim. Anybody else use it that way?

And rightly so, confusion I mean. To make it worse, at times I see 10/2017/11! Huh?

Said banana pudding has become my birthday cake: from scratch and hot out of the oven...

Cornmeal mush? AKA grits?

Would that be William Hupy by any chance? Not just animal hair, but humans too have their hairs stand on end...hair on the nape of the neck and the arms seem most frequent. Can't quite place the source or the rest of it, but I bet someone can easily: and make each particular hair stand on end like q...

Any relation to puddle?

I had endless wars with females over color identification ever since I picked up a lipstick in my. High school parking lot labeled "Skybluepink!" Huh? NO girl I showed it to had ANY problem with it.

Rofl, wurdpurrson! I may prefer your usage!

A bit quixotic: checkmate means the king is dead, but he is the only piece in chess that is never captured. When he is pinned and under attack, the game is over, checkmate. But he may be pinned and not under attack, which becomes a stalemate. Also, the word "stale" to most of us implies ol...

I've never met thisword before. It surprises me, because everyone dreams, so why not an alternate word.