July 2007 |
Jul 2 | Half vs Halves |
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Jul 3 | Dog terms |
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Jul 4 | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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Jul 5 | The typical vocabulary |
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Jul 6 | Foster |
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Jul 9 | Naked |
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Jul 10 | Baseball's Sad Lexicon |
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Jul 11 | Dichotic |
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Jul 12 | Orange |
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Jul 13 | Cotton |
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Jul 16 | Literati & digerati |
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Jul 17 | Erle Stanley Gardner & gunsel |
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Jul 18 | Fifth column |
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Jul 19 | Kilter & fettle |
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Jul 20 | Riot Act |
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Jul 23 | Stupor & stupid |
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Jul 24 | Simon Bolivar |
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June 2007 |
Jun 1 | Grist and grits |
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Jun 4 | King George III |
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Jun 5 | Collocate |
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Jun 6 | D-Day |
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Jun 7 | Quiz |
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Jun 8 | Retention and detention |
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Jun 11 | Idol |
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Jun 12 | Peanut gallery |
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Jun 13 | Roller coaster |
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Jun 14 | A favorite word puzzle |
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Jun 15 | The year of the first fatal aviation accident |
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Jun 18 | Impressment |
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Jun 19 | Blaise Pascal |
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Jun 20 | A leg up |
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Jun 21 | Solstice & summer |
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Jun 22 | Troop |
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Jun 25 | English words with a Slavic origen |
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Jun 26 | Fungo |
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Jun 27 | Terms of 1844 |
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Jun 28 | Vain |
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Jun 29 | Ponere offspring |
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May 2007 |
May 1 | Terms of the United Kingdom |
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May 2 | Calling the question |
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May 3 | Making bones |
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May 4 | I ching |
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May 7 | Beaufort's scale |
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May 8 | Antoine Laurent Lavoisier & National Teacher Day |
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May 9 | Circadian rhythm |
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May 10 | Room and board |
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May 11 | Coarse, vulgar, and obscene |
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May 14 | Variolation & vaccination |
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May 15 | Stewardess |
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May 16 | Bluestocking |
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May 17 | Apology & apologia |
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May 18 | Terms of museology |
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May 21 | Bloodletting |
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May 22 | The dog that didn't bark |
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May 23 | Carl Linnaeus |
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May 24 | Fodder |
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May 25 | Fodder and grist |
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May 28 | zoologist, glaciologist, geologist, and ichthyologist |
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May 29 | Two heroes of American history |
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May 30 | The proof is in the pudding |
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May 31 | Blue moon |
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April 2007 |
Apr 2 | Casanova, Romeo, Don Juan, and Lothario |
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Apr 3 | Knickerbocker |
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Apr 4 | Big Brother |
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Apr 5 | Slug |
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Apr 6 | Quoit |
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Apr 9 | Winston Churchill |
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Apr 10 | Maven |
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Apr 11 | Licorice |
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Apr 12 | Sent to Coventry |
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Apr 13 | Alfred Mosher Butts |
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Apr 16 | Asteroid |
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Apr 17 | Stress in language |
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Apr 18 | Compatriot, patriot & patrioteer |
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Apr 19 | Antimacassar |
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Apr 20 | Nugation |
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Apr 23 | Petard |
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Apr 24 | Netiquette and emoticon |
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Apr 25 | Hibernate and Hibernia |
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Apr 26 | Words of 1944 |
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Apr 27 | Cockpit |
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Apr 30 | Words of 1967 |
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March 2007 |
Mar 1 | Ghost writers |
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Mar 2 | Dr. Seuss |
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Mar 5 | Pompons and pompoms |
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Mar 6 | Procrastination |
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Mar 7 | Words of the senses |
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Mar 8 | Labels applied to women |
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Mar 9 | Virulent |
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Mar 12 | Boycott |
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Mar 13 | Play by ear |
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Mar 14 | Origin unknown |
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Mar 15 | Newfangled |
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Mar 16 | James Madison |
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Mar 19 | Presume, assume, presuppose, and postulate |
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Mar 20 | Amateurs and professionals |
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Mar 21 | Exotic (to us, at least) terms |
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Mar 22 | Marcel Marceau |
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Mar 23 | Polka dot |
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Mar 26 | Soviet cosmonauts and citizenship |
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Mar 27 | Dungaree, denim, and jeans |
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Mar 28 | Clown |
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Mar 29 | A flow of words |
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Mar 30 | Blue devil |
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February 2007 |
Feb 1 | Kith and kin |
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Feb 2 | Shadow |
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Feb 5 | Punic |
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Feb 6 | Reggae |
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Feb 7 | Sir Thomas More & Sinclair Lewis |
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Feb 8 | Mews |
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Feb 9 | Factoid |
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Feb 12 | Charles Darwin |
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Feb 13 | Vanishing point & perspective |
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Feb 14 | Words of love |
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Feb 15 | Recant |
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Feb 16 | Noodge and nudge |
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Feb 19 | Redress |
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Feb 20 | Orbit |
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Feb 21 | Carminative |
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Feb 22 | Braggadocio & ignoramus |
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Feb 23 | Samuel Pepys |
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Feb 26 | Communication terms of 1934 |
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Feb 27 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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Feb 28 | Aspect ratio of business stationery |
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January 2007 |
Jan 1 | Words from the Open Dictionary |
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Jan 2 | Isaac Asimov |
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Jan 3 | Less |
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Jan 4 | Antedating |
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Jan 5 | Cowlick |
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Jan 8 | Monopoly |
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Jan 9 | Words of 1793 |
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Jan 10 | Words that mean nothing |
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Jan 11 | William James |
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Jan 12 | Zip |
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Jan 15 | Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior |
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Jan 16 | Taboo |
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Jan 17 | Wanton |
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Jan 18 | Phenomena |
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Jan 19 | Edgar Allen Poe |
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Jan 22 | Business stationery |
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Jan 23 | Mare's nest |
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Jan 24 | Edith Wharton and National Compliment Day |
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Jan 25 | Virginia Woolf |
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Jan 26 | Shortening |
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Jan 29 | Freethinkers' Day |
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Jan 30 | A day of violence |
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Jan 31 | Thirty pieces of silver and potter's field |
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December 2006 |
Dec 1 | Art |
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Dec 4 | Gigman, babbit, and booboisie |
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Dec 5 | Irrational exuberance |
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Dec 6 | Sabotage and piggyback |
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Dec 7 | Pearl Harbor |
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Dec 8 | Tow |
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Dec 11 | Renunciation and abdication |
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Dec 12 | Popinjay |
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Dec 13 | Rue the day |
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Dec 14 | Nostradamus |
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Dec 15 | Terms of 1791 |
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Dec 18 | Pandemonium |
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Dec 19 | Carter Godwin Woodson |
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Dec 20 | Zuzu�s petals |
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Dec 21 | Philadelphia lawyer |
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Dec 22 | Bit and byte |
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Dec 25 | Christmas |
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Dec 26 | Boxing |
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Dec 27 | Chopsticks |
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Dec 28 | Poor Richard |
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Dec 29 | Dock |
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November 2006 |
Nov 1 | Preposterous, absurd, and ludicrous |
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Nov 2 | Epitaphs |
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Nov 3 | Impoverished |
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Nov 6 | Sax and Sousa |
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Nov 7 | Nonce words |
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Nov 8 | Sweet, fly, and solid |
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Nov 9 | Integrity |
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Nov 10 | Pass out |
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Nov 13 | Nounce words |
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Nov 14 | Impressionism |
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Nov 15 | Than and from |
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Nov 16 | Cloud nine |
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Nov 17 | John Peter Zenger |
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Nov 20 | Sheik |
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Nov 21 | Hippopotamus |
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Nov 22 | Charles Darwin |
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Nov 23 | Thanks |
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Nov 24 | Content |
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Nov 27 | Less |
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Nov 28 | Revenge |
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Nov 29 | Army and navy |
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Nov 30 | Cockaigne |
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October 2006 |
Oct 2 | Yom Kippur |
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Oct 3 | Veteran and veterinarian |
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Oct 4 | Dick Tracy |
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Oct 5 | Tantrum, conniption, and hissy |
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Oct 6 | Maggoty |
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Oct 9 | Amerindian and Eskimo |
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Oct 10 | Spiro Agnew |
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Oct 11 | Customize |
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Oct 12 | Sabotage |
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Oct 13 | Lenny Bruce |
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Oct 16 | Webster and Wilde |
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Oct 17 | Rain forest |
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Oct 18 | Confucius |
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Oct 19 | Troll |
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Oct 20 | Dillydally |
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Oct 23 | Goulash and paprika |
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Oct 24 | Arabic food stories |
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Oct 25 | Geoffrey Chaucer |
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Oct 26 | Two bits |
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Oct 27 | Piggyback |
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Oct 30 | Malapropism |
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Oct 31 | Halloween |
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September 2006 |
Sep 1 | Jimmies |
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Sep 4 | Coxey's Army |
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Sep 5 | Butterfly |
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Sep 6 | Indian style |
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Sep 7 | Google |
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Sep 8 | Goats and marigolds |
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Sep 11 | Grief, anguish, woe, and sorrow |
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Sep 12 | Words from Charles Dudley Warner |
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Sep 13 | Bourbon |
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Sep 14 | Sticks |
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Sep 15 | Nephew and nepotism |
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Sep 18 | Words from Samuel Johnson |
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Sep 19 | Broughams and boroughs |
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Sep 20 | Remembering Upton Sinclair |
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Sep 21 | Female curmudgeon |
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Sep 22 | The fourth estate |
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Sep 25 | Faulknerian |
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Sep 26 | The Objective Correlative |
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Sep 27 | Sesquipedalian |
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Sep 28 | Parameter |
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Sep 29 | Bobbies, Scotland Yard, and metonymy |
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August 2006 |
Aug 1 | Guess the word |
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Aug 2 | Cataract Awareness Month |
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Aug 3 | John T. Scopes and silence |
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Aug 4 | The Julian period |
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Aug 7 | Mata Hari |
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Aug 8 | Slander vs. libel |
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Aug 9 | Galaxy and myriad |
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Aug 10 | Homage |
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Aug 11 | Female cuckold |
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Aug 14 | Third rail |
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Aug 15 | Palindromes |
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Aug 16 | Sheets and sails |
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Aug 17 | Is |
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Aug 18 | Toady, fawn, and truckle |
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Aug 21 | Nickname-based terms |
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Aug 22 | Malafide and bona fide |
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Aug 23 | Terms for knives |
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Aug 24 | Using big words |
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Aug 25 | Alphabetic phonetic codes |
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Aug 28 | Moonraker |
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Aug 29 | Newfoundland |
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Aug 30 | Match |
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Aug 31 | Precarious and caries |
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