tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33743412024-03-17T23:04:00.482-04:00Twists and TurnsMusings and oozings (mostly about words) by Michael GatesMGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.comBlogger3613125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-66417075134621440992024-03-10T15:41:00.002-04:002024-03-10T15:41:19.886-04:00Would YOU want a lazaretto-themed man cave?<p> <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b>LAZARETTO</b> (n) = an institution (such as a hospital) for those with contagious diseases</span></p><p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">"After
a week of binge-watching old pirate movies, Tim's imagination sailed
away with the idea of converting his basement into a lazaretto-themed
man cave. Complete with fake portholes, rum barrels, and a "Quarantine
Zone" sign, his friends joked that anyone entering would need more than just a shot of grog to survive the evening unscathed." --Chat GPT</span></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"> </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-54026826901181816992023-11-18T17:07:00.007-05:002023-11-18T17:11:16.046-05:00Do you believe in ECTOPLASM (like Arthur Conan Doyle did)?<p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: arial; text-overflow: unset;"><b>ECTOPLASM</b> (n) = a substance that produces spirit materialization and telekinesis. </span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: arial; text-overflow: unset;">"The novel’s ectoplasm hovers between the realms of historical horror and cultural comedy." — <i>Washington Post</i>, 9 Nov. 2021</span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: arial; text-overflow: unset;">Arthur Conan Doyle believed in fairies: <br /></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: arial; text-overflow: unset;">https://tinyurl.com/2s38f8yw</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-91628786935872661762023-11-11T21:17:00.004-05:002023-11-11T21:17:54.487-05:00If I draw it, will you give me your ESPHRASIS?<p> <span style="font-family: arial;"><b>EKPHRASIS</b> (n) = a written description of or commentary on a visual work of art</span></p><p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en">"Hongo’s work embodies ekphrasis — his capacious mind roams across art forms." — Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> <br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-5393812762268265652023-10-28T23:16:00.005-04:002023-11-11T21:19:26.697-05:00Don't be an OMADHAUN!<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;"><b>OMADHAUN</b> (n) = a fool or nitwit. Irish slang word. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="text-overflow: unset;">"Tom behaved like an omadhaun when he tried to fix the broken car engine with a hammer and a screwdriver." --ChatGPT</span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-63053656644321692372023-06-24T18:43:00.003-04:002023-06-24T18:43:50.389-04:00Is your doctor's waiting room a place of AETERNITATIS?<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: arial;"><b>AETERNITATIS</b> (n) = eternity or of eternity. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="font-family: arial;"> "The philosopher contemplated the mysteries of existence with a gaze that seemed to transcend time, as if he were connected to the aeternitatis of the universe." --ChatGPT </span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-58714003543654161472023-06-08T21:12:00.004-04:002023-06-08T21:12:34.295-04:00Stand back! He's SIALOQUENT!<p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><b>SIALOQUENT</b> (adj) = tending to spray saliva while speaking <br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">"The sialoquent professor could not understand why his pupils would not sit in the front row of the lecture hall." --Wiktionary</span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-11733366482912280812023-04-28T23:15:00.001-04:002023-04-28T23:15:38.193-04:00Do you dream of using ONEIROMANCY?<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"> <b>Oneiromancy</b> = divination or fortune-telling based on the interpretation of dreams</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en">"In
the popular TV show <i>American Gods</i>, the character of Mr. Wednesday is
known to possess the ability of oneiromancy, using dreams to guide his
actions and gain an advantage over his enemies." --Chat GPT</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en">All of my dreams are anxiety dreams about being lost or forgetting to go to class and then having to take the final. And my college days were decades ago.</span> </span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-31031111298616030672023-04-17T22:25:00.002-04:002023-04-17T22:25:24.430-04:00Are you feeling TRUCULENT today?<p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b>TRUCULENT</b> (adj) = hostile, aggressive, or defiant; difficult to deal with. "The truculent customer refused to leave the store, despite the manager's repeated requests." --Chat GPT</span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-66013459096271137632023-03-26T23:38:00.004-04:002023-03-26T23:38:40.275-04:00Are you omniloquent or do you only talk about sports?<p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b>Omniloquent (adj) = able to talk about any and all subjects</b></span></p><p><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">"The
keynote speaker was known for his omniloquent speeches that could
captivate any audience, regardless of their background or interests."
--ChatGPT</span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-37118599582361952142023-02-07T13:30:00.001-05:002023-02-07T13:30:23.243-05:00Ouroboric<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">OUROBORIC (adj) = self-referring. "...a unique ouroboric self-mirroring structure whereby the sky mirrors the earth and vice-versa." --Jadran Mimica, "Explorations in Psychoanalytic Ethnography" (2007)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6AkSokodJn1-rpt26KIrwQcuOJCUqbJsXxtq5N4zQbqlzwPvBlpyMOMfcfrjxcNVDY2LOIafa7wLB3WCjcq3bpGvc9xFmotw4QQL1pGKTB3mSAcfjbmf2z1e_vAM1stxlq6HkGZokY2e6owckHbsD0Z2MzVig6B6FYJlv2Nw7L0tyb-7_HCo/s1002/ouroboros.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="976" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6AkSokodJn1-rpt26KIrwQcuOJCUqbJsXxtq5N4zQbqlzwPvBlpyMOMfcfrjxcNVDY2LOIafa7wLB3WCjcq3bpGvc9xFmotw4QQL1pGKTB3mSAcfjbmf2z1e_vAM1stxlq6HkGZokY2e6owckHbsD0Z2MzVig6B6FYJlv2Nw7L0tyb-7_HCo/s320/ouroboros.jpg" width="312" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-28017737087179657822023-01-15T23:27:00.004-05:002023-01-15T23:27:54.389-05:00Do you jenticulate every morning?<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's... </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>JENTICULATE [jen-TIK-yew-LATI] (verb)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">To eat breakfast</span><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto" lang="en">"Essentially,
Agamemnon gives a long speech commanding the Greeks to jenticulate
(which is the posh way of saying eat your breakfast)." --Mark Forsyth,
"The Horologicon" (2013)</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br /></span></span></p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-12443493414025005342022-11-06T22:06:00.000-05:002022-11-06T22:06:02.901-05:00A Couple of Haikus<p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Pooling in heel-prints </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br />I think I am going up </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"><br />Love is a shadow</span></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__i2m8d1b1sxm" lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0">Belted by summer<br />From the bristling foliage<br />I look through windows</span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__o6208weteu" lang="en"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0"></span></div></div><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-21481507282190338332022-05-01T23:35:00.003-04:002022-05-01T23:36:50.416-04:00Are you into MAMMONISM?<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's... </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">MAMMONISM [MAM-un-IS-em] (noun)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">The greedy pursuit of riches<br /><br />"Between Mammonism and myself there is a war to the knife, the knife to the hilt, the hilt to the hand." <br />--Mercer Green Johnston, "Patriotism and Radicalism" (1917)<br /><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizXvtnoDJOMgWv7aopsvxb4JKA8yM4yE6U7nUs6VROXqFHJQgQHJoesDCZjVKeSc3N9_ieKgNTNGWWJ9-yjfvkIo5VNI1Ea5-P9s4tzwhLhqnVMafR13F6n5UAfaMRvdyNxsqgOOF5Y_37HobZjlDs33WcyENjPHl0jWIp3n-enAh-hwIN7qw/s675/capitalist.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="502" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizXvtnoDJOMgWv7aopsvxb4JKA8yM4yE6U7nUs6VROXqFHJQgQHJoesDCZjVKeSc3N9_ieKgNTNGWWJ9-yjfvkIo5VNI1Ea5-P9s4tzwhLhqnVMafR13F6n5UAfaMRvdyNxsqgOOF5Y_37HobZjlDs33WcyENjPHl0jWIp3n-enAh-hwIN7qw/s320/capitalist.JPG" width="238" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-23353926406520211282022-04-10T22:36:00.006-04:002022-04-10T22:44:47.961-04:00Are you happy that it's finally FRONDESCENTIA?<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...<br /><br />FRONDESCENTIA [FRON-dess-SEN-tee-UH] (noun)<br />It refers to the "leafing season", or the time of the year when plants unfold their leaves -- springtime, in other words.<br /><br />"Frondescentia is the leafing of a plant; florescentia is, for like reason, the flowering of a plant." <br />--"The Analectic Magazine" (1817)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQsEWyneQJ8O4VxY0reDwdjlxJcUay-aO5pRi3LFFt8UIyeaIpnyAqpBEkP2XE7vxH0T99OOcV1wibY3wYigf5oDer5rq8W5GkQVxDaZmJF0Inetf4MVTumKchYjqasGbzJtA-mbu_j9TtAJ8HTUa0muIUcao40gsXmR1Oxqff_HI3KKa69sQ/s430/Monet%20Springtime.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="430" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQsEWyneQJ8O4VxY0reDwdjlxJcUay-aO5pRi3LFFt8UIyeaIpnyAqpBEkP2XE7vxH0T99OOcV1wibY3wYigf5oDer5rq8W5GkQVxDaZmJF0Inetf4MVTumKchYjqasGbzJtA-mbu_j9TtAJ8HTUa0muIUcao40gsXmR1Oxqff_HI3KKa69sQ/s320/Monet%20Springtime.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /> </span><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-80330907861229620062022-03-06T23:58:00.002-05:002022-03-07T00:02:23.383-05:00You might be ICARIAN, Mr. P<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...<br /><br />ICARIAN [ih-KAIR-ee-UHN] (adjective or noun)<br /><br />Having qualities similar to the Greek mythological character Icarus, especially his excessive ambition and recklessness</span></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">"Predictably, the hazardous displays of the Icarian are prone to provoke countertransference reactions that, much like a failed parachute, collapse an analytic attitude."<br />--Terrence McBride, Maureen Murphy, "Trauma and the Destructive-Transformative Struggle" (2019)<br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXGgWs_zElAp8N5mjb3GkMrKV4CXeQsF0GEtiYSb8waBYG4FsglKiBhocai-sK9pwGTcOTggzOWAjwFUOf2Dl8x_O0KgGRxVvD7rU0VqR6fa7Fr5S8EJiYz13BXnV8Q7B2aT3eiUcY3LxkpiOToKDjV_c84itFxcUvx6LqUDRkt7t7t8HrGbI=s538" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="349" data-original-width="538" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgXGgWs_zElAp8N5mjb3GkMrKV4CXeQsF0GEtiYSb8waBYG4FsglKiBhocai-sK9pwGTcOTggzOWAjwFUOf2Dl8x_O0KgGRxVvD7rU0VqR6fa7Fr5S8EJiYz13BXnV8Q7B2aT3eiUcY3LxkpiOToKDjV_c84itFxcUvx6LqUDRkt7t7t8HrGbI=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-23113298512096571502022-01-30T22:18:00.003-05:002022-01-30T22:35:57.278-05:00Zzzz... Are you suffereing from DYSANIA?<p><span style="font-family: helvetica;">What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...<br /><br />DYSANIA [dis-AY-nee-uh] (noun)<br /><br />The state of having a hard time waking up and getting out of bed in the morning<br /><br />"Will our postdigital universe emerge carelessly from the griffonages of a soggy-brained professor, afflicted with dysania, or from some bio-powered hard drive afflicted by a crapulent program created by some cocaine-addicted technician working a second job in a meth lab?"<br />--Peter McLaren, Petar Jandric, <i>Postdigital Dialogues on Critical Pedagogy, Liberation Theology and Information Technology</i> (2020) <br /> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFPWwxMOACejfV9cI5le_HIaTfJT0ODKNt48jbb9g29Q_yWyWbKyFDpGAk0DQZvY5-HYt_bFZUakIE7b6ILkDvwYjpZypx9XSto-68ftLwxLYL_0KZy98RpgkG7-_Vn45BzZp_0b7b-W-1Nz0OAKBoFhMisROsg29Vyc9lwVoRSfEUb6z7AMw=s1348" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="1348" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjFPWwxMOACejfV9cI5le_HIaTfJT0ODKNt48jbb9g29Q_yWyWbKyFDpGAk0DQZvY5-HYt_bFZUakIE7b6ILkDvwYjpZypx9XSto-68ftLwxLYL_0KZy98RpgkG7-_Vn45BzZp_0b7b-W-1Nz0OAKBoFhMisROsg29Vyc9lwVoRSfEUb6z7AMw=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-630233442455001842022-01-17T21:29:00.001-05:002022-01-17T21:29:38.535-05:00Are you feeling SOMNICULOUS?<p><span style="font-family: arial;">What's "the word I'm thinking of"? Today, it's...<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">SOMNICULOUS<span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;"> [som-NIC-yoo-luss] </span>(adjective)<br /><br />Sleepy or drowsy <br /><br />"She soon went to sleep, but dreamt of distresses and vexations, of exertions demanded, and powers not to be excited; of falling from precipices, of painful adieus, and of boats foundering in shoreless waters, and was haunted by all the train of somniculous misery, which the superstitious resolve into causes, and the less weak into effects."<br />--Laetitia Matilda Hawkins, <i>The Countess and Gertrude</i> (1812) </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">(TWITO, page 139)</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoAfpnLf1BVi93dG_gTgcF1RBNqhsXMVeB-ZcafJsOB9EYWhN57DOhlngrowHZLz5vewsaHETBiH-Z6zpaR5sfWrgSV6vID9Oqu03nfV57uzvTKGG_tPymz-VBa7nNRWxe50a_Q8OR8On-ao_cR6dnSWUvhQ0fEqbLGmrAnIcEHljtxJHhHcs=s711" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="711" data-original-width="671" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjoAfpnLf1BVi93dG_gTgcF1RBNqhsXMVeB-ZcafJsOB9EYWhN57DOhlngrowHZLz5vewsaHETBiH-Z6zpaR5sfWrgSV6vID9Oqu03nfV57uzvTKGG_tPymz-VBa7nNRWxe50a_Q8OR8On-ao_cR6dnSWUvhQ0fEqbLGmrAnIcEHljtxJHhHcs=s320" width="302" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-74443849391954369202021-11-21T22:18:00.003-05:002021-11-21T22:19:20.443-05:00You'll have more STHENIA if you eat your spinach<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's...</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><b>STHENIA</b> [STHEE-nee-uh] (noun)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">strength, energy, vitality </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">"The first condition he called sthenia," I explained. "Meaning lots of energy." "Correct. And the other group, by distinction had a-sthenia." "No energy." "Correct again. You do know your etymology, Samantha."<br />--Beach Conger, <i>It's Probably Nothing: More Adventures of a Vermont Country Doctor </i>(2011)</span><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpsTDLfweIEexYAf4Apes9PtLJXaCzhwg-alkYIbupYLItndtkPHyRKNogx1O4pzrVIbw1Y8lPnwrV05UvLbebMGnq89p9EtBmxigZjxp7ZUCMFwpAX4rkyy8xLHid5AIL22zGOA/s1079/Barrois4.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1079" data-original-width="772" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpsTDLfweIEexYAf4Apes9PtLJXaCzhwg-alkYIbupYLItndtkPHyRKNogx1O4pzrVIbw1Y8lPnwrV05UvLbebMGnq89p9EtBmxigZjxp7ZUCMFwpAX4rkyy8xLHid5AIL22zGOA/s320/Barrois4.JPG" width="229" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-78253763654375559982021-10-17T20:32:00.004-04:002021-10-17T20:41:32.022-04:00Tired? Try not to PANDICULATE<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's...</span></span></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>PANDICULATE</b> [pan-DIK-yuh-LAYT] (verb)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">To stretch and yawn simultaneously</span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"I'm troubled with pandiculation,
</span><span style="font-family: arial;">An ailment dire and rooted deep
</span><span style="font-family: arial;">'Tis caused by undue hesitation
</span><span style="font-family: arial;">In rising from the couch of sleep."
</span><span style="font-family: arial;">--George W. E. Daniels, "Pandiculation", in </span><i style="font-family: arial;">The Medical Pickwick</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> (1921) (TWITO, page 106)</span></p><p></p></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkQpHwd45gMMw7mFKkOpHPVUFkK_C8d81EP-BjB7QLHKoiHcKIOx5w4fHQNnU5kH4eURzFmfE5vxtjvZ7B9YYihVjLOzT3WPD55s3yJoSlggJIkCdLOpioOSi4Cy-fa75HkKRhRg/s460/pandiculate.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="283" data-original-width="460" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkQpHwd45gMMw7mFKkOpHPVUFkK_C8d81EP-BjB7QLHKoiHcKIOx5w4fHQNnU5kH4eURzFmfE5vxtjvZ7B9YYihVjLOzT3WPD55s3yJoSlggJIkCdLOpioOSi4Cy-fa75HkKRhRg/s320/pandiculate.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
</span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-31934890528150682052021-09-12T22:21:00.001-04:002021-09-12T22:46:37.768-04:00Vaccination is proceeding at a CHELONIAN pace <p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;">What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's.... </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>CHELONIAN</b></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: arial;">[che-LO-nee-UN]</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> (noun or adjective)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A turtle or like a turtle or tortoise (i.e., slow)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2a2a2a;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Weighed down by bickering and blather, the farm bill crept through Congress at a chelonian pace.</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">"<br />--</span><a class="gray-darkest b bb bc-gray bt-hover" data-qa="author-name" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/valerie-strauss/" style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); border-left-style: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-style: initial; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Franklin, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Valerie Strauss</a>, <span style="font-family: arial;"><i>The Washington Post</i> (2013)<br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4CNbu4RRsNIfwREuvuFEjuQAdwr8Udv10Xr8JmdnxtJzlzcq3Uxo3QCogsNykGinwdgqDIb3lpX4DUzMHbbNil2U9KOfAUY3rP_YbhadD7rBRuxCnnQMWA8l3mYDLQ4CUBnqDzA/s750/turtle.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="750" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4CNbu4RRsNIfwREuvuFEjuQAdwr8Udv10Xr8JmdnxtJzlzcq3Uxo3QCogsNykGinwdgqDIb3lpX4DUzMHbbNil2U9KOfAUY3rP_YbhadD7rBRuxCnnQMWA8l3mYDLQ4CUBnqDzA/s320/turtle.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-65847708802975820532021-08-15T13:08:00.000-04:002021-08-15T13:08:01.459-04:00Have you heard the PSITHURISM today?<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 12.61px;">What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's.... </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12.61px;"><b>PSITHURISM</b></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 12.61px;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12.61px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;">[SIGH-thur-IS-em]</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 12.61px;"> (noun)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12.61px;">The sound of rustling leaves or wind in the trees. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 12.61px;">"Another day the sweet south is blowing; do you not see how the larch and lime palpitate with pleasure? ... do you not hear the musical psithurism of the feathered foliage?"<br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 12.61px;">--Mortimer Collins, "The Secret of a Long Life" (1875)<br /></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 12.61px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVIRIUr0I7LK6FPnBc0Ez9ON_wMKfZp9r1vzliV09OOZH2Og3wdpniVtVLfVKNrptxnqiMFS0ZnG_uW_50_XlzTXkck59mb_5LMESsWzhRdFtDmgWsKye1elNRjFL6hwa3aap0Qw/s718/shade+tree.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="718" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVIRIUr0I7LK6FPnBc0Ez9ON_wMKfZp9r1vzliV09OOZH2Og3wdpniVtVLfVKNrptxnqiMFS0ZnG_uW_50_XlzTXkck59mb_5LMESsWzhRdFtDmgWsKye1elNRjFL6hwa3aap0Qw/s320/shade+tree.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-14253934446011292822021-08-01T21:43:00.001-04:002021-08-01T21:43:25.253-04:00Do you need more RHATHYMIA in your life?<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial;">What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's.... </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>RHATHYMIA</b> [ruh-THY-mia] (noun)<br />
<br />
Light-hearted, carefree behavior<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">"The Beatles proved that one could combine <b>rhathymia</b> with mayhem in ‘Maxwell’s
Silver Hammer,’ their bizarrely jaunty little ditty about a serial killer." (TWITO, page 125)</span><br />
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Today, it's.... </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.61px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>OVATE </b>[OH-vait] (adjective)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12.61px;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Having an oval shape, like an egg</span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12.61px;">"Todd Smith's engaging small paintings create intricate patterns out of myriad, carefully hand-painted ovate dots, which set the eye dancing in somewhat the same manner as op-art." <br /></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 12.61px;">--Peter Clothier, "Gallery Rounds/Bergamot Station" (2007)<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha9qU_ENLdGRHv-jWLbtb4vkWGJMHuTfNqe14-RJlcU3DClL-SeQKd6fbuM7GBN2JQ52kExd82spF8i1pgajFJz7XTEw7d1c7oHnUwv1byq7rr6bnszKwp-cPX-Z4cactFsZDSLw/s1106/Alice+in+Wonderland+1933+B.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="962" data-original-width="1106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha9qU_ENLdGRHv-jWLbtb4vkWGJMHuTfNqe14-RJlcU3DClL-SeQKd6fbuM7GBN2JQ52kExd82spF8i1pgajFJz7XTEw7d1c7oHnUwv1byq7rr6bnszKwp-cPX-Z4cactFsZDSLw/s320/Alice+in+Wonderland+1933+B.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-90988254512656178892021-05-30T22:42:00.004-04:002021-05-30T22:42:55.747-04:00STERNUTATION? Gesundheit!<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 12.61px;">What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's.... </span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12.61px;"><b>STERNUTATION </b>[ster-nyuh-TAY-shun] (noun)</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12.61px;">The act or sound of sneezing</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 12.61px;">"Tabby, the omnipresent housecat, seemed to delight in Natalie's constant sternutation." (TWITO, page 149)<br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzkisjzcwbpZvcF-o2PA86sBZOM4O6M6GLoj1O37JnlPtLoK77aB6q2kwf8BrB095bCYa7fvJ1wyq4IJipaWYzasOUHr6apWRa5G_mCeyr8HYTgNRrVYflCC7U5tH_S0GnVj8tJQ/s844/sneeze.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="844" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzkisjzcwbpZvcF-o2PA86sBZOM4O6M6GLoj1O37JnlPtLoK77aB6q2kwf8BrB095bCYa7fvJ1wyq4IJipaWYzasOUHr6apWRa5G_mCeyr8HYTgNRrVYflCC7U5tH_S0GnVj8tJQ/s320/sneeze.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3374341.post-79805698161901132842021-05-23T21:28:00.004-04:002021-05-23T21:28:41.410-04:00Feeling OIKOFUGIC now that you're vaccinated?<p><span style="font-family: arial;">What's the word I'm thinking of? Today, it's.... </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>OIKOFUGIC </b>[oy-ko-FU-jik] (adjective)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Marked by the urge to wander or travel away from home</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">"Genevieve's employment as an air hostess for Oceanic Airlines enabled her to indulge her most <b>oikofugic</b> fantasies, but an emergency landing in Uzbekistan was not one of them." (TWITO, page 101)<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJW7kjTQtiSLS6yAC_1j0D0OLbg0ekE5nEGeVx_RELttl5jzzWrD45zAU_WJYb3hwWQaZSVHO8-ltq30MTmTvRNd5TfhYz-31CaHouCQmSLg3MtJOo2n53UQk8rboFbEnR0sfMDQ/s960/balloon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="717" data-original-width="960" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJW7kjTQtiSLS6yAC_1j0D0OLbg0ekE5nEGeVx_RELttl5jzzWrD45zAU_WJYb3hwWQaZSVHO8-ltq30MTmTvRNd5TfhYz-31CaHouCQmSLg3MtJOo2n53UQk8rboFbEnR0sfMDQ/s320/balloon.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><iframe src="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?href=http%253A%252F%252Fmichaelgates.blogspot.com&layout=button_count&show_faces=true&width=450&action=like&font&colorscheme=light&height=21" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" style="border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:21px;" allowTransparency="true"></iframe></div>MGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795054739156597047noreply@blogger.com3