Wordwizard

Hmm, Cleo. Where exactly have you been looking for those word origins? If you had tried a dictionary (there are links to online ones on the Wordwizard home page), you might have found them. They won't just appear out of thin air; you'll have to look in the right places. (Hint: try looking up the roo...

And, noel, it's really not proper netiquette to shout (aka type in all caps), especially when you're asking for help.

Bob, obviously, Shelley's apartment was the one with snow on the balcony!

Bob, I have to give this the epitome of pun ratings: it was a three-groaner!!! Loved it!

I just tried it, and nothing happened. Here at work, I have Word 2003, maybe that's the difference. I'll try it at home tonight (I can't remember which version of Word I have at home) to see if anything happens.

Phil's posting reminded me of a segment on the local news a week or so ago. (Our local news team is pretty much the laughing-stock of the city. Most major headlines go unnoticed by them until the newspaper has reported it--the following day, but if a snowflake is seen anywhere in the county, they wi...

Da Yoopers did record a Christmas song; the radio station I usually listen to played it several times over the Christmas season last month. The song is "Rusty Chevrolet," and it's to the tune of "Jingle Bells": "Rust and smoke, the heater's broke, the door just blew away. I light a match to see the ...

Laurie, don't even get me started about how my fellow Illinoisans pronounce certain towns located in the Land of Lincoln! Just in the vicinity of Springfield, we have an Athens (pronounced with a long "A"), a New Berlin (pronounced "BURR-lin), and a San Jose (pronounced "san-JOE'S")! And, if you're ...

Actually, it sounds like Etta really needs a word for the SINGULAR "you" that won't sound like she's inviting the entire group to lunch. Obviously, by using "you," the listeners inferred the plural form rather than the singular. Using "you-all" wouldn't solve that problem, because "you" still CAN be...

As a life-long Illinoisan (the "s" is still silent), it irks me to no end to hear my state referred to as "ill-uh-noise"! The only time I've heard St. Louis pronounced without the ending "s" is in the song, "Meet Me in St. Louis, Louie" or, occasionally, as a joke. I used to pronounce Missouri as "M...

Obviously you haven't seen the police force here in Springfield, Illinois! Chief Wiggam is alive and well here! Even though we don't have a volcano, a monorail, or a Tire Fire ("Now Smelled in 46 States!"), I still contend that ours is the TRUE Springfield of the Simpsons. Here are some of the reaso...

It's not just a St. Louis thing, Norton. A large number of Midwesterners (especially from South-Central Illinois, where I grew up) put an "r" in "wash." It took me years of practice to get rid of it.

Here in the Midwest, there is generally no distinction between the pronunciations of an ink PEN and a safety PIN (or TEN and TIN, WIN and WHEN, etc.). Most Midwesterners pronounce them all with the short "i" sound. I had a friend in college who was originally from upstate New York. She thought it wa...

Yosemite Sam (from the Bugs Bunny cartoons) uses it frequently.

lol, WOZ!!!! My guess is that the Babelfish assigned to the Neolorgasts all committed suicide!