Encyclopedia Britannia feminine rhyme, also called double rhyme, in poetry, a rhyme involving two syllables (as in motion and ocean or willow and billow). The term feminine rhyme is also sometimes applied to triple rhymes, or rhymes involving three syllables (such as exciting and inviting). Robert B...

Seems to me you left out a few other contenders. How about Marian Kind and June McBride? And I'm sure there are a few more, I just couldn't remember their names.

The Ngram viewer is the tool you need to compare the frequency of prolegomenon, prolegomena and prolegomenas. Here is a link to that plot. As you will see, other than a small bump back between 1800 and 1820, there are but few occurrences of "prolegomenas" https://books.google.com/ngrams/gr...

Selenophiles were pleased to learn that selenologists have recently found a hot spot in the selenography of the far side of the moon. Unfortunately, the article at the link missed its opportunity to use today's Goodword. https://www.livescience.com/space/the-moon/scientists-discover-huge-heat-emitti...

I have no general rule, but I suspect "rotundo" is more specialized than "rotunda." This plot comparing the two on the Ngrsm viewer show "rotunda" has always been more common than "rotundo" https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=rotunda%2Crotundo&ye...

Vanbrugh's rotundro, despite the lack of capitalization on "rotundo" in the OED quotation, is a proper noun and often capitalized elsewhere. The architect, John Vanbrugh, lived from 1664 to 1726, and he designed the Rotundo at Stowe Landscape Gardens, Buckinghamshire, in 1721. So the quota...

Perhaps a word of explanation of the Ngram Viewer and its use. It is a wonderful tool for finding how words have been used historically, but since it is based on optical scans of thousands of texts, there are often problems with how the text is represented in that old fonts/letter forms from the pas...

I would like to suggest "pecan" as a suitable Good Word of the Day. Pecan refers to various aspects of the plant Carla illinoensis, the tree and its eatable nut/fruit and various things made from the fruit such as pecan pies. Other than its nominal and adjective uses, it has no other famil...

The recent citations on the Ngram Viewer are surnames. The examples synonymous with "rotunda" are mostly from around 1800.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c ... moothing=3

David, there is a brief discussion of "off" in the Goodword Dictionary at "Offing." Here a link https://www.alphadictionary.com/goodword/word/offing Searching the entire Goodword website, I found this additional comment https://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=294 and etymonline h...

Not quite the same thing but here in Japan we often hear and see signs stating things like "Tamagawa River" where Japanese-English dictionaries usually gloss "gawa" as "river"

The Ngram viewer does not allow us to expand the sample to capture more text, but I undertook a search of the internet to see what I could find with the title and author. Here's what I found. Amazon has a digital Kindle version for about 2000JPY https://www.amazon.co.jp/-/en/Patwant-Singh/dp/0720613...

Using the Ngram viewer I found a couple of interesting examples Here, clearly in sense 3 "The medal had three orders : the first order beset with diamonds was reserved for the princes of the royal family and distinguished foreigners ; the second order beset with emeralds was conferred on the hi...

Thank you, Slava. Your link worked differently than the original. The original led me to the Facebook sign in page.

I would like to see that graphic setting out the alphabets based on hieroglyphics, but, not having a Facebook account and lacking the intend to have one, I cannot see your Facebook page. Would you please post the graphic someplace more generally accessible?