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Post Hunting?
Those of you who know I am on a momcation this weekend might be disappointed that I have yet to put up any new blog posts. My apologies. I am on vacation, you know. In the meantime, I have post over at Arkansas Women Bloggers that you can read if you miss me that bad. … Read entire article »
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Twingle Defined
Ok, I’m a day late, but that’s because the guys who are putting in our sprinkler system hacked right through my internet cable line yesterday. For shame. I was like a fish out of water. A Twingle is a single child who is often mistaken for a twin, due to being close in age to a sibling with similar physical appearance. So a twingle is always part of a pair of twingles. My kids are indeed twingles. The are 17 months apart in age, and look more like one another than they look like their parents. We get asked all the time if they are twins (or people just assume) and have also been asked several times if we adopted our twins. This phenomenon seems to be getting worse as Callen … Read entire article »
Filed under: Mommyhood, There's a Word for That
There's a Word for That: Twingle
It’s been a while since we’ve done an “interactive” TWT, so here we go. I made up a word today: Twingle. Not like that time when I thought I made up the word momcation only to find out a year later that it is being used all over the place by moms with wanderlust. No, this time, I really did make up a word. Now, twingle is a homograph (remember that from last week’s TWT post?), so if you do a search online for “twingle” you’ll get results, but that twingle has a different definition. No, this twingle is all mine. My very own word. I’m twingle’s mama. So, now the interactive part: What is the definition of twingle? (not that other twingle. MY twingle.) Leave a comment with what you think … Read entire article »
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There's a Word for That: 'nyms
A few weeks back, my friend Stephanie sent me this message: “Why are there so many words with multiple, seemingly unrelated meanings? For example, a litter can mean newborn animals, trash or to leave trash lying about, AND a basket used in rescues. None of those seem related at all.” Steph is a teacher, so she probably already knows that the word “litter” is a homonym. You probably learned about it in English class, but your brain has since flushed that fact to make room for other more pertinent things. Homonyms are words that sound the same, but have different meanings. Litter is also a homograph. Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have multiple meanings. There are also heteronyms, which are words that are … Read entire article »
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The Name Game
This month is my turn to act as “managing editor” over at the Arkansas Women Bloggers site. In the process of organizing and linking to about 100 blogs in the past two days, I’ve noticed that a lot of bloggers have assigned aliases to their family members. Perhaps just for fun, or maybe to protect anonymity, or maybe because everyone else is doing it. For example, my friend “The Park Wife” blogs about her husband, “Big Buckaroo” and her two “Little Buckaroos”. This is actually a witty play off of the family name, which I will not reveal. Kim at What Am I Going to Be When I Grow Up? calls herself Kim, but her husband is “Burly Surfer Dude” (or BSD for short) and her daughters are “Big Ballerina” … Read entire article »
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There's a Word for That: Catch 22
Catch-22 Stuck between a rock and a hard place Damned if you do, damned if you don’t All three of these sayings mean roughly the same thing, but while the second two are fairly straight forward in their meaning, a Catch-22 doesn’t really explain itself well. Craig suggested “Catch-22” for a TWT post. Catch-22 is relatively young for a saying or phrase. It was born in 1961 as the title of a book by Joseph Heller. Catch-22 is the term Heller coined to invoke military bureaucracy. The number 22 was chosen simply because it sounded nice. It is used multiple times in the novel when characters are grappling with circular logic. The main focus of Catch-22 (the novel) is the dilemma of WWII fighter pilots who wish to be grounded from combat missions on … Read entire article »
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