You'll be pleased to know I am now getting "Word of the Day" email regularly. Thank for all your efforts.

It seems to me that some of the elements in this sentence have suffered an interesting metathesization:
"The rrecently oot of this word was mentioned as also underlying . . . ."
Did you intend to write "The root of this word was recently mentioned as also underlying . . . ."

Dr Goodword says "subterfuge" is a mass noun with no plural. Yet in his "In play" section, his second example, "TV commercials resort to many subterfuges to entice viewers to buy the products they advertise," he uses it in the plural. If it were a mass noun wouldn't it ...

Back in 2006, the Good Doctor said that "bricolage" would make a good word of the day as it is a word with an interesting story (origin myth?). But it hasn't run yet. According to Merriam Webster the first known use of bricolage is 1960 and it denotes a "construction (as of a sculptur...

The dictionaries (both US and British) partially support you on "confidante." They include a usage note saying something like "usually a woman."

Also please see my note on "anymore" added to the "Is he a Realtor anymore" thread.

Merriam-Webster has this to say about anymore/any more anymore vs. any more Although both anymore and any more are found in written use, in current writing anymore is the more common styling. Anymore is regularly used in negative ⟨ No one can be natural anymore. —May Sarton ⟩ , interrogative Do you ...

I can't answer the question directly but I might be able to put a floor under it. The 1977 item in the link below uses "bury the lead" in the sense you ask about https://books.google.co.jp/books?id=3IxbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22bury+the+lead%22&dq=%22bury+the+lead%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved...

Dr. Goodword, bringing up the "Blue Tail Fly" to illustrate the meaning of "gimcrack," only makes me more curious. What is "gimcrack corn"? On the internet, we find "corn" can be slang for "moonshine whisky" but moonshine, while cheap and shoddy, is ...

"Dond" is new to me too. Wordnik has neither a definition nor a etymology but does have a couple of examples. Here's an explanatory example without a link to the explanation mentioned: "An explanation of how the word "dond" came to be used by RR people to mean to second anot...

Slava, your question is unclear. Which word are you asking about? Vermicelli: Merriam-Webster says "borrowed from Italian, plural of vermicello, diminutive of verme "worm," going back to Latin vermis" Diet: the Online Etymology Dictionary says "diet (n.2) "assembly,&quo...

Dear Dr. Goodword, The ngram viewer turns up this example from Allen Schick: The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process published by the Brookings Institution, pg 147 It is now less practicable for the Senate to "Christmas tree" tax bills by inserting revenue-losing provisions as bargai...

In Play
There were a few emollient words for the prime minister before she [Prime Minister Theresa May] was sent home across the English Channel on Thursday, but they just sounded patronizing.
-- It Takes More Than Bluster to Brexit, New York Times, Dec 19, 2017

Slava, for me "cherry" and "chary" are homophones and both rhyme with "carry." They are respectively "cheree," "cheree" and "keree."

From the NYTimes today (Dec 6) in "Trump's Endorsement of Roy Moore Points Up a G.O.P. Problem: Chaos"
"But an organization that can fend off such a landslide does not appear in the offing."

Someone writing for the New York Times has got their knickers in a twist about gender in language in general and French in particular. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/opinion/french-sexism-grammar-everybody.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fopinion&action=click&contentCollection=...