Wordwizard

Oh, I'm going to miss this site & and all of you wonderful people so willing to answer questions! Wordwizard has always reminded me of Evan Morris's The Word Detective. I read thru all his entries until I got to the end - the end of his health and life. I missed it horribly, then found this site. At...

After my daughter moved to Texas she picked it up, so I hear it a lot from her. Now I use it. It's a very handy word!

Tho I may be the only person in our small NW town to use it. I do agree with the person in your example - it's better than "you guys."

That is so cool! Thank you for the link.

Shed. To lose hair would mean going bald.

True life example: My donkeys shed every summer, but last year Clare was losing hair in patches due to a skin problem.

Delightful memory, perhaps? I have a few of those. Can't remember the names - if I ever knew them - but the encounters were memorable.

I'm a pretty good cook and often get asked what is in a dish, meaning what ingredients. The only time I get asked what's inside something is if it's stuffed. Which I don't do too often. And a helpful hint for those who take things to potlucks, please print a list of ingredients & put it by the dish....

No way! PLEASE offer me a seat! Standing in one place for any length of time becomes painful & potentially dangerous - my balance isn't good. That professor is an idiot. We all have different health problems & sitting on the bus, train, or while waiting in line to be helped isn't "taking it easy." I...

I don't care for it either, which is one of the reasons I now live way off the beaten path. Anyone who shows up unexpectedly is either lost or up to no good.

I've been wearing glasses for almost 60 years, so I'm used to them now. :D About 20 years ago I realized I needed reading glasses. I tried bifocals but simply couldn't adjust. I'm grateful for computers. I read the local paper online because I can increase the size of the print. We still get the pap...

I'm one of the rare liberals in a very conservative area. I also hate conflict so politics is out, religion is iffy. Weather is a safe topic unless someone starts ranting that climate change is not real.

I stay home a lot.

Can't afford cable. Haven't watched tv in years. Mostly we watch dvds - our own or from the library.

We take the ferry across Lake Roosevelt. It's an open barge so we do stay in the car if the weather's bad. But on a nice day it's fun to walk around. It only runs during daylight hours so at night we have to take the bridge - which takes us an extra 40 miles or so.

As far as I know, "get off with someone" does not exist as an established idiom in US English. I think it would leave most Americans scratching their heads in puzzlement.

Correct. I'm not current on today's slang, but "get it on" would be understood as sexual.

Hey Tony - That's why we've decided on a generator that can run on propane. We already have propane tanks for the furnace & stove & our electrician said the generator can be set up to run off the existing tanks. We can no longer cut enough firewood to last the winter because of age & health problems...

Yikes, Bonnie! Two weeks? I can't imagine... It wasn't too bad for us. Except for no water or lights, everything else was normal. We were living in a small cabin with only wood heat & an outhouse. In our innocence, we thought we would have the large log shop turned into a house within a few years -...