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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 

Current mood:  busy
Category: Blogging
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Almost Heaven Word of the Day
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eschatology

Though its subject matter has been with us since the dawn of time, you still can't major in this one: eschatology is the branch of theology concerned with the end of the world, or with events at the end of life. Its apparent user-unfriendliness is due to its having no close relatives in English. The Greek root is eschatos, "furthest."

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Thursday, October 22, 2009 

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Attaches to Anything Word of the Day
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khanate

If you think outside the box on this one -- the box being a single ancestor language -- you can probably guess its meaning: a khanate is the realm or office of one of various Asian rulers known as a khan. The Latin-derived -ate bit in fact gets tacked onto words from all sorts of languages and is similarly used in cardinalate, caliphate, consulate, episcopate, and rabbinate, to name a few.

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I don't know if you've heard of Nathan Bransford.  He's a literary agent with the Curtis Brown, LTD agency.  I subscribe to his blog via email and get a daily post.  I find him very informative and he keeps you up to date on what's happening in the world of publish. Of course, I like his sense of humor.

If interested here is the link:  http://blog.nathanbransford.com/

Humor 

A married man was having an affair with his secretary.  One day they went to her place and made love all afternoon. Exhausted, they fell asleep and woke up at 8 PM.  The man hurriedly dressed and told his lover to take his shoes outside and rub them in the grass and dirt.
He put on his shoes and drove home.

'Where have you been?' his wife demanded.
'I can't lie to you,' he replied, 'I'm having an affair with my ecretary.  We had sex all afternoon.'
She looked down at his shoes and said: 'You lying bastard! You've been playing golf!'

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Thursday, October 15, 2009 

Current mood:  complacent
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Between windy days, which mean bad sinus headaches, and working away rewriting... You get the point, right? I know -- even after I said I would try to post more often.

Let's Eat! Word of the Day
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Preprandial

Along with its companion postprandial, this adjective divides its time between medical and humorous uses to characterize something that happens or exists before a meal: preprandial glucose levels or preprandial cocktails. The common bit, prandial, exists as an infrequent word in English, from Latin prandium, "lunch, meal."
 
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Monday, September 28, 2009 

Current mood:jazzed
Category: Writing and Poetry
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I have a tentative publish date for Cruise Into Jeopardy:  January 2010

Blurb:

After the death of her husband ends a thirty-year monogamous relationship, for two years, Raven LaCroste wallows in celibacy, until she learns her writing group is sponsoring a cruise.  Considering cruises to be prime playgrounds for the sexually hopeful -- sex-drive gene tweaked -- she signs up.  First night at sea, she encounters Jamal Whitaker, but their night together ends abruptly with an acrimonious quarrel.  Next morning, the first assault on Raven occurs, and hours later, someone tries to kill her.  For Raven, the cruise has lost its appeal, and it’s no longer an exercise in sexual exploration, but a workout in survival skills.  Unsure of whom she can trust, she confides in the new member of her group, Anthony Corbett.  Believing he is a criminal law attorney with a background in law enforcement, she enlists his help, unaware he has his own agenda for coming to her aid.


© Emily Wade-Reid


I will keep you updated.

Word of the Day:

One Size Fits All Word of the Day

Procrustean

This marvelous adjective characterizing pointless or ruthless demand for conformity owes its meaning to a son of Poseidon: Procrustes, who stretched his guests or cut off their legs in order to make them fit his bed.

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Monday, September 21, 2009 

Current mood:  okay
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Bad day for surfing...


Chew on This Word of the Day
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pemmican

You can count on one hand the words from Cree (a Native American language) that have earned a spot in English dictionaries, but this is one of them: a kind of portable food, made from lean dried meat mixed with fat. Campers today make an updated version of it, containing a wider range of nutrients.

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'Well Behaved Women Rarely Make History.'                             
    - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich                                            
                                                                        
One morning the husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, and reads her book.
                                                                       
Along comes a Game Warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, "Good morning, Ma'am. What are you doing?"
                                                                        
"Reading a book," she replies, thinking, Isn't that obvious?
                                                                        
"You're in a Restricted Fishing Area," he informs her.
                                                                       
"I'm sorry, officer, but I'm not fishing. I'm reading."
                                                                        
"Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any  moment. I'll have to take you in and write you up."
                                
"For reading a book," she replies.
                                                                        
"You're in a Restricted Fishing Area," he informs her again.
                                                                        
"Officer, I'm not fishing. I'm reading."
                                                                        
"Yes, but you have all the equipment, you could start at any moment... I'll have to take you in and write you up."
                                                                        
"Fine.  If you do that, I'll have to charge you with sexual assault," says the woman.
                                                                  
"But I haven't even touched you!" the game warden exclaims.
                                                                       
"That's true, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment."
                                                                        
"Have a nice day, ma'am," he said then left.
                                                                    
MORAL: Never argue with a woman who reads. It's likely she can also think.

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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 

Current mood:  thoughtful
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Put It Together Word of the Day
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confect

Whilst savoring confections we rarely reflect that they would not be so designated but for this underused verb -- even though it did not appear in English until after confection, and is largely obsolete today. Both words descend from Latin conficere, "put together." These days, confect's work is done mainly by concoct and compose.

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009 

Current mood:  excited
Category: Writing and Poetry
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Back in June, I wrote about the contract I signed for my lastest WIP Cruise Into Jeopardy, and i said I would update you when I received further information. So...

I signed the contract with Whiskey Creek Press. The editing process to begin shortly. Will keep you updated with tentative release date.

(Artwork is author's depiction -- subject to change.)

Cruise Into Jeopardy
Emily Wade-Reid
Fiction - m/f - romantic suspense - Interracial

At fifty-two, Raven LaCroste's thirty-year monogamous relationship ends with the death of her husband.  Raven reverts to the celibacy of her youth until she learns her writing group is sponsoring a cruise.  Considering cruises to be prime playgrounds for the sexually hopeful, she signs up.  First night at sea, she encounters Jamal Whitaker, the perfect choice for test-driving her rekindled sexuality, but their night together ends abruptly, and an acrimonious quarrel ensues.  Next morning, there is an attempt on her life.  Hours later, there is a second attempt.  No longer an exercise in sexual exploration, for Raven, the cruise has become a workout in survival skills.  Her distrust of the regular members in her group has her confiding in the new member, Anthony Corbett.  A criminal law attorney with a background in law enforcement, she enlists Anthony’s help, unaware he has his own agenda for coming to her aid.

© Emily Wade-Reid

Along the Same Lines Word of the Day
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coterminous

Looking for a nifty adjective to characterize equality of extent, scope, or duration? We thought so! Here's coterminous, a pretty near synonym of coextensive but with a more high-flown flavor. You get an inkling of the relation with terminus, Latin for "boundary," so the essential idea is "having the same boundary."

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Thursday, September 10, 2009 

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Talk about having a bad day on the job.

 

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Today's mail:

I received this in my email today.  The sender thought this referred to me.

Be the kind of woman who, when your feet hit the ground each morning the devil says, "OH CRAP, SHE'S UP!"

I have to admit -- Too true.

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Thursday, September 10, 2009 

Current mood:  tired
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Yarn-Spinning Word of the Day
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raconteur

It would be fun if this word had some relation to raccoon, but we have to consult French rather than Algonquian to learn its origins. A raconteur is someone who is good at telling stories. The ultimately Latin root of the word also appears in recount.

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Monday, September 07, 2009 

Current mood:  amused
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Good God Word of the Day
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demiurge

The demi- part clues you up that this is a lesser version of something (as in demitasse, demimonde, etc.). If the -urge leaves you scratching your head, think Greek: ergos, "work." But still no cigar. A demiurge is a subordinate deity responsible for fashioning material things. Who couldn't use a few of those?..

HUMOR...

Have you ever been this tired?

  

 
 

 

 

 

 

And the best one for last...

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