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Quilts and Quills
My grandmother made a quilt for me, the only son of her oldest son, before she died.
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Plethora
I’ve always thought plethora was a cool word.
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Oxygen Mask
If you’ve been to the top of a mountain, you probably know the air is thinner up there. I recently described this experience like so:
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Cretins and Cretans
Cretans are people from the island of Crete.
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Hot Movements
The 19th century was an exciting century for physics and engineering.
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The Importance of Exportant
The word important is… well, important.
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Polyps
The ancient Greeks had a word to describe sea creatures with many legs.
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Verse, Verses, and Versus
You start with a Latin word, as is so often the case.
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They Still Speak Latin
As the Roman Empire spread, so did its culture and language.
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Bom Dia!
All throughout Central and South America, you’ll find the Spanish language dominating almost everywhere.
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Grift and Graft
Whenever I heard the word grift or grifter, my mind travels to an era with the likes of Charles Ponzi. It’s the era of cement sneakers and flappers…
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Olive Garden or Olive Garden?
Near the end of high school, I began to realize that I should start doing some adult things.
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