Published on June 24th, 2007 by Malachi
6/24/07, 10:58 PM
Obliterate –a word with an interesting built-in message.
Definition: To do away with completely; destroy so as to leave no trace. [Etymology: Latin --obliterare, "to strike out words."]
Literacy, we know.
But, New word: Obliteracy?
(Lennie Lopate does a section every month, “Three Little Words” a show about words with “word-maven” Patricia Connors on WNYC. It’s often [...]
Published on June 24th, 2007 by Malachi
Have you been watching the slipping and sliding, and the increasingly mealy-mouthed language that W. and his crew have been using to describe “the surge” and that hard-and-fast assessment which we were told we would have by September?
(Plan A, it turns out, was “All mealy-mouth, all the time. Plan B will be “Mealy Mouth Plus, [...]
Published on June 18th, 2007 by Malachi
In PART 1 of my “Work in Progress” report on the book I am working on, “The Strange Story of Hermann Gebler”, I wrote:
“I became interested in the story of Hermann Gebler when my youngest brother Jerome, who still lives in Cobh, County Cork, told me about two years ago that he had come across [...]
