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Category: Wordplay

Wordplay: Back in the day, when words were words….

Posted on March 16, 2024by mktdaf

It was fun to run into this list of 20 words that are rarely (mostly never) used any more. Most of them sound like the idea they convey, I think – see what you think & feel when you hear these (click on the picture, to start):

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Thoughts: Where I’m going

Posted on August 2, 2021by mktdaf
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Music: A Lovelies’s version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah”

Posted on June 19, 2021by mktdaf

Canadian folk group The Good Lovelies are on a roll….if you haven’t heard them before, this is a good chance to hear them in a sweet version of the famous Cohen song:

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Categories: Poetry of Music, WordplayTags: cohen, good lovelies, hallelujah

Wordplay: Figment of your…never mind

Posted on March 22, 2021by mktdaf
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Categories: Funnier, Wordplay

Wordplay: Neologisms, unite

Posted on January 13, 2018by mktdaf
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Wordplay: Yawn

Posted on October 25, 2017by mktdaf
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Wordplay: Orthography

Posted on October 23, 2017by mktdaf

Thanks to Randall, with http://xkcd.com

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Categories: Funnier, Wordplay

Wordplay: Kicking the can down the road…..

Posted on October 20, 2017by mktdaf
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Wordplay: Librocubicularist

Posted on October 20, 2017by mktdaf
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Wordplay: Getting to the point

Posted on October 18, 2017by mktdaf
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Wordplay: Tidsoptimist

Posted on October 13, 2017by mktdaf
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Wordplay: Yes, you can

Posted on October 3, 2017by mktdaf
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Wordplay: A very important list

Posted on July 14, 2017by mktdaf
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Wordplay: Out of cite

Posted on June 20, 2017by mktdaf
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Wordplay: Coddiwomple

Posted on August 15, 2016by mktdaf
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Wordplay: Variety, dude, variety

Posted on July 9, 2016by mktdaf
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Categories: Thoughts, Wordplay

Wordplay: Psithurism

Posted on June 16, 2016by mktdaf
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