Repast seems to be a pretty good word to give variety to our speech. Let's use it more often.

I can say pandiculation but in my dotage it is hard to perform.
I believe pandiculation has a family of related words.

Luke, Here is a good version of this song. Kttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTTq3AYC9Lk

We played a childhood game called "crack the whip" Children held hands in a row and started running. The leader makes a turn which is followed by each child in turn. This can create quite a uncontrolled velocity for children at the end of the whip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDk83PwYxKQ In the ...

I first encountered Queue meaning a pigtail. I never heard it used for a waiting line until I got citified.

Here in the hinterlands we cogitate a lot. We have a sort of motto:
"Sometimes I jist sits n thanks.
Sometimes I jist sits."
I might hope any cogitation would render cogent statements. But I can't count on it.

Speaking of great novels [as if someone had], I am weary of reading the junkish modern novels. I am now reading Dickens' "David Copperfield" for the third time in my life. I have a bunch of classics to reread. Of course this has little to do with the topic. Moreish, biggish, sharpish, dullish - Ther...

Here in the hinterlands, I dare not use degust for fear it would be misunderstood as disgust. Those in more civilized climes may have better results in using it. Speaking of disgust: In my childhood, Red Ryder's sidekick Little Beaver was wont to say "Ugh! Me gusdusted!" No disrespect for my Amerind...

I was wondering when the Good Doctor was going to get to this gem of a word. There is a hint of fear in Ichabod. It is not a swear word or even a fake swear word. It is a good substitute for "to Hell in a handbasket".

Here in the hinterland the old men sitting on the spit and whittle bench say tarnation. The dictionary says that is a euphamism for damnation. It sounds just as bad to me. To avoid the old men on the spit and whittle bench, I usually come in the side door of the general store. Actually the general s...

There are cultural divides when it comes to condiments. The British put vinegar on fish and chips. Most Americans use ketchup. People in the South tend to mustard on hamburgers while the Yankees seem to prefer ketchup. Some people insist on using mayonnaise. I prefer Miracle Whip to mayonnaise. Mira...

In the Hudson household in which I grew to manhood, these fake swear words were as forbidden as the original. When I was in the third grade I said "shucks" while on the playground. The teacher overheard me and advised against saying such words. Later, on the playground, a boy criticized his sister f...

Isn't there a public figure of today demanding exoneration?

My dear wife just returned from a three week visit to Eastern Europe. This included a lower Danube riverboat tour and a visit to friends who are "people of the cloth". She and her travel companion are elderly ladies, but the leaders were a pair of 50-somethings. I don't roam. I stayed at home.

Yes, "round eyes" is pejorative. My favorite Asiatic pejorative for westerners is "the stinky ones." I teach English to classes of Asians. They say I smell like beef, which is strange because I rarely eat beef.