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For Authors: May 26, 2021 Issue [#10789]




 This week: Wild & Wonderful World of Words
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1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
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5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
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About This Newsletter

I tend to collect and save quotes. Here are some that have just quite ever fit in anywhere--so I'm using them now!

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. ~~Robin Williams

The butterfly is a flying flower.
The flower a tethered butterfly.~~Ponce Denis Ecouchard Lebrun

Grace is finding a waterfall when you were only looking for a stream.~~ Vanessa Hunt

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~~Emily Dickinson

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.~~ Stephen King

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all. ~~Emily Dickinson

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own. ~~Carol Burnett


All things must change to something new, to something strange. ~~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. Sara Teasdale


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Letter from the editor

We are wordsmiths. As such, we become collectors of words. I am a logophile - I collect words; especially unusual ones! I've got quite a collection so I thought I'd share a few - see if you know what these mean. Some will be easy, others not so much, but still, some really cool words. Grab a pen and paper - see how well you do! Answers down below.

1. bibiophist a) collector of libraries, b) stamp collector c) book collector

2. petrichor a )smell of soil and plants after it rains b) collective name for the media that grows in a petri dish c) species of bivalve mossusks

3. crepuscular rays a) red markings emanating from an infected wound b) sun rays through clouds c) photographic effect used on sun pictures

4. overmorrow a) yesterday b) tomorrow c) day after tomorrow

5. nibling a) the thing you are nibbling b) a non-gender specific niece or nephew c) a small selection of something

6. purlicue a) a knitting crocheting stitch b) decorative molding on Victorian houses c) distance between outstretched thumb and forefinger

7. nurdle a) the blob of toothpaste on your toothbrush b) the blob of pastry on its way to becoming a dumpling c) the blob of fat that oozes out over the edge of a girdle

8. aglet a)a newly hatched eagle b) the plastic end of a shoelace c) the stitching around a buttonhole

9. aphthong a) a series of similar-sounding words b) silent letter in a word c) when you remember the tune, but not the words in a song

10. barm a) the hill of dirt running along a plowed furrow b) discarded shells beneath a birdfeeder c) froth on beer

11. obelus a) editing tool to mark factually questionable passages in manuscripts b) division sign c) property marker between fields

12. octothorp a) pound symbol or hashtag b) the eight-sided base of a statue c) generalized name for the family octopuses belong to

13. drupelets a) the wetness left behind when a bubble bursts b) the babies still alive when one of a set of quadruplets dies c) bumps on raspberries or blackberries

14. philtrum a) the tip of your nose especially when it is bulbous b) the groove under your nose c) the cartilage that separates your nostrils

15. columella a) the tip of your nose especially when it is bulbous b) the groove under your nose c) the cartilage that separates your nostrils

16. griffonage a) illegible scrawl b) the placing of gargoyles and griffons as water sluices on cathedrals (for example) c) the art of sculpting griffins

17. tittle a) toenail on your little toe b) the words the tattler uses c) dot over the j or I

18. lemniscate a) infinity symbol b) the space in a bottle between the cap and the top of the liquid c) the distance between the opposing ends of a cat's whiskers

19. grawlix a) graffiti b) symbols to replace swearing c) mad-faced emogi

20. paresthesia a) the habit of overdoing parenthetical comments in writing b) cramping from holding a pen or pencil for too long c) pins and needles feeling when your foot falls asleep

21. semordnilap a) absolutely nothing; just the word palindromes backward b) a word that is a word frontwards or backwards like stressed c) a word that is spelled the same but had wildly different meanings and is pronounced differently

22. niddick a) nape of your neck b) the inside of your elbow c) the hollow behind your earlobe

23. contronym a) two (or more) words spelled the same but pronounced differently [lead and lead] b) two or more words spelled differently but pronounced the same [lead and led] c) two words that are both spelled and pronounced the same but mean opposite [cleave and cleave]

24. quincunx a) five dot pattern on dice b) series of multiple closely spaced rumble strips to make you slow down c) the little gas meter on the dashboard to show you which side your gas cap is on

25. amphibology a) the study of amphibians b)agrammtically ambiguous sentence or phrase c) a collection of amphibious vehicles

26. concinnity a) believing a constantly stated lie b) overly simplistic explanation c) elegance of literary style

27. eucatastrophe a) happy ending b) a tragic ending c) an unsettling ending

28. incunabula a) referring to witches b) books printed before 1501 c) dealing with incubi

29. logomachy a) an agreement of tenses b) similar terms describing similar actions c) an argument about words

30. sesquipedalian a piece of writing containing many long words b) a word with many syllables c) writing with extremely long and convoluted sentence



So! How do you think you did? Hopefully, you actually tried this, or I'll have spent the time it took to come up with possible alternatives that sound as if they 'could' be right for nothing! Either way, playing around with words is fun. They say a day we learn something new is a day not wasted. I didn't waste today; hopefully, you didn't either!


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Ask & Answer

Turkey DrumStik Author IconMail Icon says: "When you ask someone what they liked about a piece, they need to be able to tell you WHY they liked it. Or, you need to be able to tell a writer why."

I feel like this point does not get the attention it really deserves. Being able to explain why you like something is a useful skill both in reviewing and in general. The ability to support any stance you have (positive or negative) boosts critical thinking capacity and helps you be more persuasive as needed. It also helps recipients feel like they're valued. I have found that I don't like compliments or praise that isn't explained to me. Baseless support actually exacerbates my more negative personality traits and makes me wonder if I actually am any good at writing (or anything else, really). Why I know why someone likes what I did, it helps me to remember my strengths (which I tend to forget).





Answers

1-c
2-a
3-b
4-c
5-b
6-c
7-a
8-b
9-b
10-c

11-a and b
12-a
13-c
14-b
15-c
16-a
17-c
18-a
19-b
20-c

21-b
22-a
23-c
24-a
25-b
26-c
27-a
28-b
29-c
30-a and b

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