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Change

1/13/2022

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Change is in the air. Okay, so change is always in the air, but what with this ever-morphing airborne virus, change is truly, really in the air. Here's hoping whatever variant comes next, it's more a good change than a bad change.

To that end, here are some wise women’s thoughts about change:

I never wanted what I thought I wanted
But always something else
Which changed again as soon as I had found it.

-Mary Carolyn Davies 

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
-Mary Catherine Bateson

Better never means better for everyone…it always means worse for some.
-Margaret Atwood

You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
-Ursula K. Leguin

Once an old woman at my church said the secret is that God loves us exactly the way we are and that he loves us too much to let us stay like this, and I’m just trying to trust that.
-Anne Lamott 

All birth is unwilling.
-Pearl S. Buck


May the next few changes in your life be good ones..



Big thanks to this week’s sources: Rosalie Maggio’'s The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women,thinkexist.com, Women’s Press, & PennStateSustainability

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Words from wise women

11/18/2021

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The headlines are filled with pundits' prognostications regarding somewhat distant upcoming elections. To counter the pontificating, here are some thoughts gleaned from folks wittier, wiser, & sometimes much snarkier than I.

“An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, & the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.”
-George Eliot


“Though in paradise the lion will lay down with the lamb, in Paradise they will not have to submit their rival political views to general election.”
-Amelia E. Barr


“Money was the manure of politics.”
-Barbara Michaels


“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.”
-Lily Tomlin


“I’ve seen public opinion shift like a wind & put out the very fire it lighted.”
-Rachel Field


“The vote is a power, a weapon of offense & defense, a prayer.”
-Carrie Chapman Catt

“Women are young at politics, but they are old at suffering; soon they will learn that through politics they can prevent some kinds of suffering.”
-Nancy Astor


​“A Platform is something a candidate stands for & the voters fall for.”
-Gracie Allen



May the pontification not get you down. And if you have comments about the quotes, please share them.


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Big thanks to this week’s sources: Jon Winokur’s The Portable Curmudgeon & Rosalie Maggio’s The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women.

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Ray Bradbury

6/3/2021

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Last week’s post featuring some thoughts from a favorite author luminary led me to this week’s post. I’ll get back to etymologies and such next week, but for now, I hope you’ll have a good time with the ever-prolific & fascinating Ray Bradbury. 

Born in 1929 & leaving this universe we know in 2012, author of 500 works, Ray Bradbury won the Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, the National Medal of Arts, & the National Book Foundation Medal, & tons more. Known best as a science fiction novelist & short story author whose stories always valued character above technology, Bradbury also wrote TV scripts, poems, plays, & screenplays. Here is a tiny sampling of his thoughts:

“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.”

“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”

&

“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”


I’m hoping some of you might choose a quote from above & have something to say about it in the comments section.



​Big thanks to this week’s sources: RayBradbury.com, SearchQuotes, BrainyQuote, &  Quotes.net -  photo from FamousAuthors.org

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Tamora Pierce

1/13/2021

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Tamora Pierce is a writer of middle grade & teen fantasy. Her books introduce readers to fascinating, intelligent, strong, female protagonists. Her books made a splash in 1983 & she's still going strong. We’ll celebrate by enjoying a few quotes from Ms. Pierce & her characters.

From her novel Lady Knight
Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary. 

From her novel Page
If arrogance were shoes, he'd never go barefoot. 

From her novel Squire
Haven’t you ever noticed that people who win say it’s because the gods know they are in the right, but if they lose, it wasn’t the gods who declared them wrong? Their opponent cheated, or their equipment was bad.

From her novel The Woman Who Rides Like a Man
Men don't think any differently from women - they just make more noise about being able to.

From various interviews:
I distrust any advice that contains the words 'ought' or 'should'. 

Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin. 

And from her story collection Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales
Without reading, we are all without light in the dark, without fire in the cold. 

If you haven’t wallowed around in the fantasy worlds of Tamora Pierce, I highly suggest you put her on your reading list.



Big thanks to this week’s sources Dare to Be Stupid, The Atlantic, Goodreads

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Kurt Vonnegut

12/3/2020

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November of 1922 brought the unsuspecting world Kurt Vonnegut. He didn’t have much to say initially, but as time progressed he proved to be a brilliant author, thinker, master of satire, dark humor, & pointed social commentary. This November 11 would be his 98th birthday. I’d like to celebrate with a tiny slice of what he had to say.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.

I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Make love when you can. It’s good for you.


The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Oh, and then there’s Slaughterhouse-Five, Welcome to the Monkey House, Cat’s Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, Player Piano, A Man Without a Country, & a stunning & steaming heap of essays, articles, short stories and novels.

Have a favorite Vonnegut work or quote? Please leave it in the comments section.

Big thanks to this week’s sources: Curated Quotes, Vonnegut.com, The Christian Science Monitor, Karen Cushman, & NPR. Image from pastdaily.com.

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Questions

7/30/2020

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Read any news source these days, & you finish reading with more questions than you started with. So this post we're looking into questions.

Indira Gandhi said, “The power to question is the basis of all human progress,” whereas L.E. Landon wrote, “Curiosity is its own suicide.”

The noun question came to English in the early 1200s, meaning a philosophical or theological problem. In the next century it added the meaning a difficulty or doubt, and by the 1500s we could use question as a verb. If we look back a bit further, things get a little dark. Question came from an Old French word meaning difficulty, problem, legal interrogation, or torture, which causes one to wonder about those Old French folk, as quaestionem, the Latin source of the Old French word, simply meant a seeking, a question, or judicial inquiry.

Free of that more menacing shade of meaning are the words querulous & query, which came to English in the 1400s & 1500s as an adjective meaning quarrelsome & a noun meaning a question, from the Latin word quaerere, meaning to seek, strive, endeavor or demand. Query became a verb in the 1600s, meaning simply, to question.

It would be fair to say that behind most questions & queries we find curiosity, a word that arrived in the language in the late 1300s, meaning both the desire to know or learn & careful attention to detail. Arriving about that same time was the word curious, which meant both inquisitive, & the somewhat less positive odd, anxious, & strange. During a spate in the 1700s when curious was seen to mean exciting curiosity, curious operated in genteel circles as a euphemism for erotic or pornographic.

We’ll close off with author Fran Lebowitz’s addition to the conversation:

“Children ask better questions than do adults. ‘May I have a cookie?’ ‘Why is the sky blue?’ and ‘What does a cow say?’ are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than ‘Where’s your manuscript?’ ‘Why haven’t you called?’ and ‘Who’s your lawyer?’”

Please use the comments section for any questions (or answers) about questions.


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Big thanks to this week’s sources: The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women. Merriam Webster, Wordnik, Etymonline, & the OED.

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Two kinds of people

5/24/2020

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Last week we took a look at words descended from the Proto-Indo European word duwo or dwo, meaning two. It seems a posting regarding two calls for a partner post, so this week we’ll take a look at a few things intelligent women have said about twokinds of people. In an attempt to decrease redundancy, I’ve started each quote midstream after the author wrote something along the lines of, 

“There are two kinds of people…”

“…those of us who are trying to escape from something & those of us who are trying to find something.”
-Ileana, Princess of Rumania



“…those who live for their outsides & those who live for their insides.” 
-Francesca Bendeke


“…the settled & the nomad -- & there is a natural antipathy between them, whatever the land to which they belong.”
-Freya Stark


“…those who have known inescapable sorrow & those who have not.”
-Pearl S. Buck


“…the people who lift & the people who lean.”
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox


“…those who live poor on a lot & those who live rich on a little.”
-Marcelene Cox


“…those who think there are two kinds of people & those who have more sense.”
James Tiptree, Jr. (Alice Bradley Sheldon)



So good readers, does the world divide into dualities, or does that last quote from Ms. Sheldon (or Mr. Tiptree if you prefer) hit the nail on the head?


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My thanks go out to this week’s sources: The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women & Tiptree.org

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Quotes about food

2/16/2020

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My two all-time favorite quotation books are Carolyn Warner’s The Words of Extraordinary Women, & Rosalie Maggio’s The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women. It fascinates & saddens me that the brilliant bits between these covers seldom appear in most books of quotations, or internet quotation sites. Here are some food-related quotes from these two fine resources:


Fran Lebowitz – Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

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Patricia Hampl – When we eat / we are like / everyone else

Ayn Rand – Ah, there’s nothing like tea in the afternoon. When the British Empire collapses, historians will find that it had made but two invaluable contributions to civilization—this tea ritual and the detective novel.

Erica Jong – Eating is never so simple as hunger.

Fran Lebowitz – Cheese that is required by law to append the word food to its title does not go well with red wine or fruit.

Julia Child – Noodles are not only amusing but delicious.

Sarah J. Hale – There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

Sara Peretsky – All food starting with a p is comfort food . . . pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, pizza, pastry.

Peg Bracken – Molded salads are best served in situations where they have little or no competition.

Joan Gussow – As for butter versus margarine, I trust cows more than chemists.

Isak Dinesen – Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the word of the Lord is to the soul.

Which quote hits closest to home? Which one coaxes a smile out of you? Please leave a comment.


My thanks go out to this week’s sources: The Words of Extraordinary Women, & The New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women.

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Dorothy Parker Tribute

10/27/2019

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I’ve always had a somewhat twisted fondness for author, poet & critic, Dorothy Parker (1893-1967). Generally, I try to see the silver lining, take the high road, and all that. However, when it comes to searingly mean wit of Dorothy Parker, I throw silver linings & half-full glasses to the winds & revel in her wickedness. Below are some of my favorite Dorothy Parkerisms.

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”

 “This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.”

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”

“She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.”

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”

 “By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.”


 “That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say 'No' in any of them.”

“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”

“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”


She’s the best (or would that be the worst?) I hope you’ll leave a comment or three.


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My thanks go out to this week’s sources Women’s History, GoodReads & DorothyParker.com

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Summertime

9/11/2019

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As summer leaves us, why not indulge in a bit of etymology & a few celebratory quotes about summer? 

Summer comes to English from Sanskrit. It appeared in English in 825, meaning exactly what it does today & spelled sumur. Interestingly, summer is etymologically related to the word gossamer, which came to English in the early 1300s, from a marriage of the words goose & summer, & meant spider threads spun in fields of stubble in late fall. Etymologists theorize that the spider silk looked a bit like goose feathers. Hmm. Within a century, gossamer found its present meaning, of light, flimsy, or delicate.

Here are some authors’ thoughts about summer. 

“Summer's lease hath all too short a date.” 
   -Shakespeare

”There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart."
   -Celia Thaxter

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” 
  -F. Scott Fitzgerald


“Come with me,' Mom says.
To the library. 
Books and summertime
go together.”
  -Lisa Schroeder

“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
  -Henry David Thoreau

"Summertime and the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high,
Your mama’s rich and your daddy’s good-looking
So hush little baby, don’t you cry"
   -DuBose Heyward, music by George Gershwin

So, good followers, what say you about summer?


My thanks go out to this week’s sources, Etymoniline.com, Goodreads & the OED.
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    Ilk
    Imitative Words
    Immanent
    Imminent
    Impala
    Impedimenta
    Incident
    Informative
    Inhuman
    Inhumane
    Innate
    Insist
    Inspiration
    Intelligent
    Iota
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Jam
    Jamboree
    Jam Session
    Janus
    Janus Words
    Jargon
    Jarhead
    Javelina
    Jello
    Jet
    Jettison
    Jibber Jabber
    Jitters
    John McCutcheon
    Jolly
    Jot
    Jowl
    Joy
    Joyous
    Juke
    Jumble
    Junk
    Justice
    Jute
    Kaput
    Kathi Appelt
    Kathleen Duey
    Keister
    Kerfuffle
    Kettle Of Fish
    Kibitz
    Kibosh
    Kid
    Kiddo
    Killed By Kindness
    Killer
    Killjoy
    Kindergarten
    Kindhearted
    Kindness
    Kindness Synonyms
    Kiss
    Kitty
    Knavery
    Knick-knack
    Knife
    Knowledge
    Kooky
    Koozie
    Kudu
    Kurt Vonnegut
    Kvetch
    Kwame Alexander
    Lackluster
    Lad
    Lady
    Language Prejudice
    Lass
    Laud
    Laugh
    Laughter
    Lavender
    Lay An Egg
    League
    Leap
    Leap Of Faith
    Learn
    Learning
    Leave Idioms
    Leave No Stone Unturned
    Leave Someone High & Dry
    Leave Someone Holding The Bag
    Leave Someone In The Lurch
    Leave Someone Out In The Cold
    Lecture
    Leprechauns
    Leprosy
    Let's Blow This Popsicle Stand
    Let's Split
    Lick
    Lickspigot
    Lickspittle
    Lie
    Ligament
    Like
    Lilliputian
    Lingo
    Litter
    Live It Up
    Lobby
    Lois-lowry
    Long-steep-path
    Looby
    Look Before You Leap
    Loony
    Loot
    Lord
    Lost Words
    Lovingkindness
    Lucky
    Lulu
    Lunch
    Lurid
    Macabre
    Mad
    Magazine
    Magenta
    Maim
    Make Like A Ghost
    Make Trsacks
    Malaprop
    Malcontent
    Mama
    Man
    Mandible
    Maneuver
    Mange
    Manger
    Manure
    Map
    Marmalade
    Marmot
    Martini
    Martyr
    Mary Hershey
    Mary Penney
    Mascara
    Mashup
    Mask
    Masticate
    Mastiff
    Mayhem
    Mazel Tov
    Meanings
    Meat
    Meat Idioms
    Meek
    Meg Wollitzer
    Meh
    Melancholy
    Mem Fox
    Memoir
    Memory
    Memory Quotes
    Menorah
    Mensch
    Mentor
    Merry Christmas
    Mess
    Messenger
    Mess Up
    Middle Of Nowhere
    Miff
    Minion
    Misanthrope
    Miscreant
    Misinterpreting
    Mislead
    Mispronunciations
    Misteltoe
    Mom
    Mommy
    Mondegreens
    Monkey Business
    Moose
    Moot
    Mop
    Moppet
    Moron
    Morsel
    Mosey
    Mosquito
    Mossback
    Mother
    Mourn
    Moxie
    Much
    Muck
    Muddle
    Muddleheaded
    Mumble
    Murfles
    Murmur
    Muskrat
    Muslin
    Mustache
    Mute
    Mutt
    Mwah
    Myles Coverdale
    Mynah
    Myopia
    Mystery
    Nag
    Napkin
    Narcissim
    Narrow- Minded
    Narwhal
    Nascent
    Natal
    Nation
    Native
    Natty
    Nature
    Naught
    Naughty
    Neanderthal
    Neat
    Nee
    Nefarious
    Neonatal
    Nerd
    Never
    News
    New Words
    Nick Of Time
    Nick Thomas
    Nifty
    Nil
    Nipper
    Nippy
    No
    Noel
    Noise
    Non-
    Noonday
    Nose Of Wax
    Nothing
    Null
    Nutty
    Oblige
    Occasion
    Off One's Nut
    Ogle
    Okapi
    Ok Boomer
    Old
    Old Dictionaries
    Old Lady
    Omniscient
    Onomatopoeia
    Oom-pah
    Orange
    Oration
    Orthodox
    Osprey
    Otiosity
    Ouija
    Out Of Sight
    Pain
    Paisley
    Papa
    Paper Mache
    Paradise
    Paradox
    Paraphernalia
    Parcheesi
    Passion
    Pâté De Foie Gras
    Patient
    Patois
    Patricia Lee Gauch
    Patti Gauch
    Pau
    Paucity
    Paul Fahey
    Paunch
    Pauper
    Peace
    Peachy Keen
    Pearl
    Peccary
    Peeping Tom
    Pee-wee
    Pellet
    Penguin
    Perryess
    Persist
    Pesticide
    Pewage
    Phony
    Pie
    Pie Idioms
    Pilaf
    Pill
    Pillar
    Pillar To Post
    Pimple
    Pint Blank
    Pique
    Pitch
    Placid
    Platypus
    Play
    Pleasure
    Plover
    Ply
    Pokey
    Political Speech
    Pompom
    Pony
    Pooch
    Poodle
    Pooh-pooh
    Poor
    Pop
    Porpoise
    Posh
    Possession
    Potato
    Pother
    Powwow
    Praise
    Prattle
    Prayer
    Precarious
    Pregnancy Euphemisms
    Prejudice
    Prevaricate
    Prey
    Principal
    Principle
    Prison
    Prize
    Prolix
    Prophet
    Propitious
    Proto Indo European
    Proto-Indo-European
    Providential
    Pry
    Public
    Public Servant
    Puddingheaded
    Pumpernickel
    Punctuation
    Punkin
    Punkinhead
    Puny
    Purple
    Put Downs
    Puzzle
    Quark
    Quash
    Queer Fish
    Querulous
    Query
    Question
    Quincunx
    Quiz
    Quotations
    Quotes
    Quotes About Food
    Quotes About Questions
    Quotes On Silence
    Raccoon
    Racket
    Rally
    Rant
    Rapscallion
    Rascal
    Ray Bradbury
    Read
    Record
    Red
    Red Herring
    Redstart
    Reduplication
    Reduplications
    Regional Language
    Rejection
    Rely
    Remember
    Renaissance
    Rescue
    Resist
    Resistentialism
    Retire
    Rhinoceros
    Rich
    Riff
    Ripple
    Risk
    Roar
    Romp
    Rubbish
    Ruckus
    Ruffian
    Rug
    Rugrat
    Ruminate
    Rumpus
    Rutabagas
    Rutterkin
    Sackbut
    Sandwich
    Sanskrit
    Sardonic Laughter
    Scads
    Scare
    Scat
    Schizophrenic
    Schnauzer
    School
    Science
    SCOTUS
    Scram
    Scraperfish
    Scrapple
    Scratch
    Scrawl
    Scream
    Screech
    Screed
    Scruff
    Scrumptious
    Secret
    Seersucker
    Self
    Serene
    Service
    Seven-up
    Sexist
    Shack
    Shack Up
    Shades Of Meaning
    Shakesepeare's Idioms
    Shaman
    Shambles
    Shamefaced
    Shampoo
    Shangri La
    Shark
    Shed
    Sheeple
    Shenanigans
    Shilly-shally
    Shin
    Shindy
    Shingle
    Ship
    Shiver
    Shout
    Shove Off
    Shriek
    Shut Up
    Sibling
    Sideburns
    Silence
    Simloeon
    Singer
    Single
    Sip
    Sistere
    Skateboard
    Skedddle
    Skin
    Skin Idioms
    Skosh
    Skylarking
    Slacker
    Slang
    Slap
    Slew
    Sling
    Slogan
    Sloth
    Slug
    Slurp
    Slush Fund
    Smack
    Small Potatoes
    Smart Alec
    Smash Up
    Smellsmock
    Smidge
    Smile
    Smitten
    Smooch
    Snack
    Snake Oil
    Sneeze
    Snit
    Snog
    Snooze
    Snort
    Sock
    Sockdology
    Socks
    Solstice
    Sombrero
    Somniferous
    Son
    Soporific
    So-so
    Sound
    Spa
    Spat
    Specifics
    Spelling Rules
    Spiel
    Spiffy
    Spiflicate
    Spill The Beans
    Spirit
    Split
    Splitsville
    Splurge
    Sponger
    Spook
    Spoon
    Spoonerism
    Sport
    Spree
    Springbok
    Spuds
    Squabble
    Squeamish
    Squelch
    Squib
    Squirrel
    Stagette
    Starch
    Stark
    Stark Dead
    Stark Naked
    Start From Scratch
    Start-up
    Steep
    Steeple
    Stereo
    Stomach
    Stooge
    Stoop
    Stork
    Straddle
    Strak Raving Mad
    Stretch
    Stubble
    Study
    Stuff
    Stuffing
    Stump
    Stymie
    Substance
    Substantiate
    Succinct
    Suffrage
    Suicide
    Sullen
    Summer
    Summertime
    Supper
    Surprsie
    Sussuration
    Swaddling
    Swami
    Swank
    Sweetbread
    Swell
    Swelled Head
    Swine
    Swivet
    Sympathetic
    Synonyms
    Tabagie
    Tad
    Take A Break
    Take A Hike
    Tamora Pierce
    Tantrum
    Tapir
    Taught
    Taut
    Tchotchke
    Teach
    Tedious
    Tedium
    Teensy
    Teeny
    Test
    Texture
    Thanks
    The Sticks
    The Well
    Thing
    Thingamajig
    Thorn
    Thoughtful
    Throw
    Thug
    Thumb-twiddling
    Thump
    Thwart
    Thyme
    Tickled To Death
    Tidbit
    Tidy
    Tiff
    Tiny
    Tipping Point
    Tip Top
    Tirade
    Titivil
    Titter
    Tizzy
    Toad
    Toast
    Toddler
    Toes
    To Go
    Token
    Tomfoolery
    Tooth
    Tooth Idioms
    Top Notch
    Toponyms
    Toss
    Tosspots
    Tosspot Words
    Toss-up
    Tot
    Tranquil
    Trappings
    Trash
    Truce
    Tuber
    Tummy
    Tump
    Tumult
    Turkey
    Turngiddy
    Turn Off
    Turn On
    Turn Up One's Nose
    Tutu
    Twain
    Twerk
    Twin
    Twine
    Twist
    Twitterpated
    Twizzle
    Two
    Two Kindsof People
    Tyke
    Typhus
    Ugh
    Uncle Sam
    Understand
    Ungulates
    Unhinged
    Up
    Upbeat
    Upchuck
    Upend
    Upholster
    Up Idioms
    Upload
    Uproar
    Up The River
    Up The Wall
    Up To Snuff
    Urchin
    Utensils
    Utopia
    Validate
    Vamoose
    Vamoose Idioms
    Vamp
    Vanity
    Vegetables
    Veil
    Verbose
    Verify
    Veto
    Vicar
    Villain
    Viol
    Viola
    Violate
    Violent
    Violet
    Violin
    Vociferate
    Vole
    Vonnegut
    Vote
    Wacky
    Wad
    Waddle
    Waffle
    Walking
    Walking Idioms
    Wall Street
    Wallydraigle
    Waste
    Wealthy
    Weasel
    Well-heeled
    Welsh Rabbit
    Weltschmerz
    Whack
    Whale
    Whatchamacallit
    Whimwhams
    Whine
    Whinge
    Whipper-snapper
    Whisper
    White Meat
    Whoop It Up
    Wilderness
    William The Conqueror
    Willies
    Wink-a-peeps
    Wise Women
    Women's Quotes
    Word History
    Wordmong
    Wordmonger
    Words
    Words From The Languages
    Words Of Georgia
    Words We Need
    Wordy
    Wraith
    Wrap Up
    Wreath
    WWI
    Xmas
    Yaar
    Yahoo
    Yam
    Yard
    Yell
    Yellow
    Yodel
    Yoga
    Yogurt
    You Don't Know Beans
    Young
    Youngster
    Yule
    Zit

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