Today's Good Word: • petard • Pronunciation: pê- tah(r)d • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. A bomb, especially one used for blowing up doors and gates or blowing holes in city walls. 2. A firecracker that explodes with a loud report. Notes: It is common to repeat Shakespeare's famous metaph...

Given the etymology of trilogy, it stands to reason that you can't use it to refer to spices and herbs.

The GW of the day: • frippery • Pronunciation: frip -êr-ee • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. Pretentious, showy finery; ostentation itself. 2. Something petty, insignificant, a triviality. Notes: Today's Good Word is almost an oxymoron: today it refers to elegant, even overelegant clothing...

Well, from my point of view, I'd go for baloney for drivel. Bologna is for the "meat."

Always nice to see that Grogie is still with us as the master of odd words.

This one's related to "vehicle." A form of carriage.

The GWoTD for today: • haunt • Pronunciation: hawnt • Hear it! Part of Speech: Verb, transitive Meaning: 1. To frequent, to appear in or at often, as to haunt the West End theaters. 2. To appear in or inhabit as a ghost, as a haunted house. Notes: The original sense of today's semantically schizophr...

Calling it a "reality show" is a falsehood. It's not real, any more than wrestling is real (sorry all you WWF fans!) Um, trademark infringement here? WWF is the World Wildlife Federation. Didn't the wrasslers have to rename themselves? I don't know, but it's the World Wrestling Federation...

Calling it a "reality show" is a falsehood. It's not real, any more than wrestling is real (sorry all you WWF fans!)

Um, trademark infringement here? WWF is the World Wildlife Federation. Didn't the wrasslers have to rename themselves?

Just being picky, but shouldn't this mean the study of joking around, teasing? That's what the -ology ending usually means, no?

Anyone remember the essay on slough we had to read in English class? It was entitled "A Hole Full of Dirt."

It sure didn't come up in my reading assignments. Do you remember who wrote it?

Almost 5 years to the day from when first treated, herewith is today's Good Word: • acquiesce • Pronunciation: æ-kwee- es • Hear it ! Part of Speech: Verb, intransitive Meaning: To assent, to give in on some issue or at least withhold your opposition, to relinquish your opinion or consent under pres...

Today's Good Word: • samizdat • Pronunciation: sah-miz- daht • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. A secret, underground publishing network in which one subscriber makes copies of prohibited literature and sends the copies out to friends who make copies and send them to their friends, and so o...

Here is the Doctor's original take on this word.

You become a Panjandrum here at 1,000 posts.

I don't actually know why they aren't being posted lately. However, when they are repeats, as these latest have been, they often do not get renewed.

August 9's good word: • blurb • Pronunciation: blêrb • Hear it! Part of Speech: Noun Meaning: 1. A brief description of a book, often printed on the dust jacket. 2. A short publicity notice. Notes: Today's word is an odd little fellow that won't go away but hasn't procreated. We may use it as a verb...