Category: words

I am think­ing today of sur­fac­tants. I don’t know why; I have no desire to reduce the sur­face ten­sion of any liq­uids. I have the vague notion that most sur...

What is it about the word verve? It does absolute­ly noth­ing for me, and it real­ly seems like it should do. I nev­er use in writ­ing nor in speech; it nev­er ...

We don’t talk about wrights much any­more, about mak­ers. Lam­p­wrights, wheel­wrights, and cer­tain­ly wain­wrights sel­dom appear in every­day con­ver­sa­tion...

Awoke in the wee hours with this float­ing in neon let­ters through my fore­mind. I don’t even know what it means. It is a music sub­genre of some sort, that mu...