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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The slang term 86 , or eighty-six, has many meanings and can function as an adjective, a verb, or an exclamation (Green’s Dictionary of Slang ). The claim that “a reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret [the numbers 86 47] as a serious expression of an intent to do harm” is beyond ludicrous.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Installation is included? Heck, I paid a pretty penny for installation!”]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-02-21T22:33:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/02/recently-updated_19.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Sheesh,” and “sheesh” again: Now with a novelty song from Art Carney.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In The New York Times, Sam Corbin reports on “the strange resurgence of words like “yap” and “skedaddle”: “Why Kids Are Starting to Sound Like Their Grandparents.”]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2026-02-11T14:57:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/02/recently-updated_6.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/01/nouning-verb.html">
    <title>Nouning the verb</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-27T13:39:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/01/nouning-verb.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“It’s what I need to finish my groom”: as heard in a commercial for a hair-trimming gadget.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>words</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/01/cussing-demanded.html">
    <title>Cussing demanded</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-08T15:08:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/01/cussing-demanded.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Erica Sinclair (Priah Ferguson) tells her teacher Mr. Clarke (Randy Havens) what’s what. From “The Rightside Up,” the deeply satisfying if not entirely coherent final episode of the Netflix series Stranger Things.]]></description>
<dc:subject>television words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:ab9131036fc1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/01/capture-or-kidnapping.html">
    <title>Capture, or kidnapping?</title>
    <dc:date>2026-01-08T15:05:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2026/01/capture-or-kidnapping.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Let’s drop “capture,” U.S. media, and call it what it is.]]></description>
<dc:subject>journalism words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:92edf7e79157/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-possible-source-for-asylums.html">
    <title>A possible source for “asylums”</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-30T15:19:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-possible-source-for-asylums.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Who put that word into the current occupant’s head?]]></description>
<dc:subject>news words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:0384d06af907/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/recently-updated_15.html">
    <title>Recently updated</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-16T15:46:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/recently-updated_15.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Words of the year Now with Merriam-Webster’s choice: “slop .”]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture dictionary words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:d7ab8143851c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/word-of-day-keister.html">
    <title>Word of the day: keister</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-10T16:13:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/word-of-day-keister.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Zippy.]]></description>
<dc:subject>comics words Zippy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:54b51449fb10/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/recently-updated_8.html">
    <title>Recently updated</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-10T16:12:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/recently-updated_8.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The answer to a puzzle, and a mystery sign made legible.

]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-puzzle-with-prize.html">
    <title>A puzzle (with a prize)</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-10T16:11:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-puzzle-with-prize.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The short version of this name is made of
~ fine particles
~ a machine
~ a musical note
~ musical instruments

The long version of the name adds drinks.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/recently-updated_1.html">
    <title>Recently updated</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-03T15:36:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/recently-updated_1.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Words of the year, now with AI slop and rage bait.]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture dictionary words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:e1c4136ea349/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/recently-updated.html">
    <title>Recently updated</title>
    <dc:date>2025-12-01T15:27:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/12/recently-updated.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Words of the year, now with parasocial.]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture dictionary words</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/woodstocks-into.html">
    <title>Woodstock’s “into”</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-23T15:02:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/woodstocks-into.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A colloquialism in Peanuts.]]></description>
<dc:subject>comics language Peanuts words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:81dd2ced93c0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/recently-updated_17.html">
    <title>Recently updated</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-18T15:35:04+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/recently-updated_17.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Words of the year, now with “vibe coding.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture dictionary words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:041626ff2277/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/wolf-tooth-potato.html">
    <title>Wolf tooth potato</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-14T14:36:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/wolf-tooth-potato.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I saw it on a menu months ago and had to ask.]]></description>
<dc:subject>food names words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:f540b6e81fa1/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/caper-sizes.html">
    <title>Caper sizes</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-14T14:34:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/caper-sizes.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Nonpareil, surfine, capucin, capote, fine, grusa.]]></description>
<dc:subject>food names words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:96db0c6be1e0/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/gpa-holes.html">
    <title>G.P.A.-holes</title>
    <dc:date>2025-11-14T14:30:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/11/gpa-holes.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pierce’s portmanteau seems to be original with him, or with Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman, the makers of Zits. I think it deserves an A.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>comics words</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/sludge.html">
    <title>Sludge</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-30T13:36:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/sludge.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I subscribe to The Atlantic , but it took an episode of the podcast 99% Invisible , “Your Call Is Important to Us,” for me to notice this June 2025 newsletter piece by Chris Colin: “That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture dictionary words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:2be76c5226a7/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/words-of-year.html">
    <title>Words of the year</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-30T13:33:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/words-of-year.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[67 and others.]]></description>
<dc:subject>culture words dictionary</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:2d2734727790/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/word-of-day-monderstanding.html">
    <title>Word of the day: m’onderstanding</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-29T14:16:11+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/word-of-day-monderstanding.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I said to Elaine yesterday that there should be a word like mondegreen to characterize a misunderstanding of a song lyric. Not a mishearing, a misunderstanding.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:290bc3e9e5b8/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-age-of-noir.html">
    <title>The age of noir</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-27T15:00:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-age-of-noir.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In Strands: NOIR? No, IRON.]]></description>
<dc:subject>film words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:5db4eeb86987/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/language-devolving.html">
    <title>Language devolving</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-23T13:47:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/language-devolving.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The current occupant has often said that the people of the press “talk bad” and “write bad” about him. And now he has said that Gustavo Petro, the president of Colombia, has “a fresh mouth toward America.”
]]></description>
<dc:subject>words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:952fb8a19167/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/words-and-other-words.html">
    <title>Words and other words</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-16T20:59:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/words-and-other-words.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you play the online game Nomido, in which you form words from two-letter bits (which can overlap), you will find that everyday words are often not recognized as valid answers. But trying random sequences of two-letter bits and overlapping two-letter bits can bring you to victory. AMMONAL, anyone?]]></description>
<dc:subject>words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:e0361c27c598/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/alcove-niche-nook.html">
    <title>Alcove, niche, nook</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-14T16:00:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/alcove-niche-nook.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I think Nancy avoided any possibility of controversy by saying “the new place for our phone.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>comics dowdyworld Nancy telephone words</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-telephone-alcove-or-nook.html">
    <title>A telephone alcove or nook</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-14T15:57:03+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-daughters-humormeter.html">
    <title>My daughter’s humormeter</title>
    <dc:date>2025-10-07T15:35:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/10/my-daughters-humormeter.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jeopardy is turnt.]]></description>
<dc:subject>fambly humor slang words</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/09/nuanced-language.html">
    <title>“Nuanced language”</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-09T21:35:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/09/nuanced-language.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I just made the mistake of putting CNN on for a minute (literally), just long enough to hear Jake Tapper refer to the change from Department of Defense to Department of War as a matter of “nuanced language.” Yes, a very subtle distinction.]]></description>
<dc:subject>language words</dc:subject>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/08/ms-now-initialism-and-acronym.html">
    <title>MS NOW, initialism and acronym</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-24T13:26:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/08/ms-now-initialism-and-acronym.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There’s also CD-ROM, HIV/AIDS, MS-DOS. Any others? And any in which the acronym comes first?]]></description>
<dc:subject>words</dc:subject>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/08/word-of-day-locum.html">
    <title>Word of the day: locum</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-13T14:13:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/08/word-of-day-locum.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I saw it in spam, and then I saw it in a crossword. It must be following me.]]></description>
<dc:subject>spam words</dc:subject>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/08/wordle-whew.html">
    <title>Wordle (whew)</title>
    <dc:date>2025-08-10T13:36:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/08/wordle-whew.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Good luck to all!]]></description>
<dc:subject>words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:b8947ff6ad4e/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/07/suburban-keats.html">
    <title>Suburban Keats</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-30T14:29:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/07/suburban-keats.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I was startled to see the word suburb in John Keats’s “Lamia” (1819).]]></description>
<dc:subject>etymology JohnKeats poetry words</dc:subject>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/07/zippys-phone.html">
    <title>Zippy’s phone</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-16T15:41:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/07/zippys-phone.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Today’s Zippy reminded me that yesterday, when a machine was “crafting” my coffee, I made a mental note to look up the word craft.]]></description>
<dc:subject>comics etymology words Zippy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/word-of-day-scustumad.html">
    <title>Word of the day: scustumad</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-01T13:06:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/word-of-day-scustumad.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The word comes up in “Soubise,” the second episode of the new (fourth) season of The Bear.]]></description>
<dc:subject>words</dc:subject>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/origin-of-idiom-low-bar.html">
    <title>Origin of an idiom: “a low bar”</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-04T14:53:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/06/origin-of-idiom-low-bar.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[You’ll be surprised to learn that “a low bar” first signified a high standard of accomplishment. Paradoxical, isn’t it? But the idiom becomes easier to understand when we know that it originated during the limbo craze that swept North America in the 1950s. The lower the limbo bar, the more difficult for a contestant to pass under it, and the higher his or her level of achievement in doing so.]]></description>
<dc:subject>idioms words</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/made-up-word-of-day-reat.html">
    <title>Made-up word of the day: reat</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-23T13:39:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/made-up-word-of-day-reat.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We like to reat at the breakfast table.]]></description>
<dc:subject>words</dc:subject>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/86.html">
    <title>86</title>
    <dc:date>2025-05-16T20:54:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/05/86.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Guardian looks at the nonsensical claim that a former director of the FBI is calling for the assassination of a president.]]></description>
<dc:subject>numbers TomWaits words</dc:subject>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/ed-kudlick-positive-anymore.html">
    <title>Ed Kudlick, positive anymore</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-27T14:06:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/ed-kudlick-positive-anymore.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From Dustin.]]></description>
<dc:subject>usage words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:573376c4478f/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/champeen-wordle-words.html">
    <title>Champeen Wordle words</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-23T12:59:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/champeen-wordle-words.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[CHAIN, STARE.]]></description>
<dc:subject>words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:08ec3836d4e2/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/flubs-of-ford.html">
    <title>Flubs of Ford</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-14T14:47:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/flubs-of-ford.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[From The Wall Street Journal, the story of Mike O’Brien, “The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues’ Verbal Flubs.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>idioms words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:271bedab9939/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/orange-door-hinge.html">
    <title>“Orange door hinge”</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-14T14:46:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/orange-door-hinge.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I think it’s important to note that today’s Strands favors those who say /ˈȯr-inj/ rather than /ˈär-inj/.]]></description>
<dc:subject>orange words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:2aa52aefcfac/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-codger-of-coots.html">
    <title>A codger of coots</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-06T20:20:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-codger-of-coots.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Coots on a lake on a windy day.]]></description>
<dc:subject>birds nature words names</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:109da3d688e3/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/word-of-day-areal.html">
    <title>Word of the day: areal</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-06T20:19:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/word-of-day-areal.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ saw it up in the corner of the TV screen, the name of some nearby county, followed by FLOOD WATCH (AREAL). Was that a typo for aerial ?]]></description>
<dc:subject>weather words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:a48f4d6e0760/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/groceries.html">
    <title>“Groceries”</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-06T20:19:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/04/groceries.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“It sort of says a bag with different things in it”: a president speaks of “groceries.”]]></description>
<dc:subject>words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:90ba9d8c2f86/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/t:words"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/incentivize.html">
    <title>Incentivize</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-27T14:29:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/incentivize.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Ugly pangram from the NYT Spelling Bee.]]></description>
<dc:subject>BryanGarner words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:2199627bd334/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-hi-and-lois-harbinger.html">
    <title>A Hi and Lois harbinger</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-19T19:08:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-hi-and-lois-harbinger.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Where did and does “harbinger” mean?]]></description>
<dc:subject>comics Hi&amp;Lois words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:aab5feb87f80/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/no-shouting-match-no-passing.html">
    <title>No shouting match, no passing</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-13T00:30:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/no-shouting-match-no-passing.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Jeez, it’s almost like these people are being careless with words. Think of it!]]></description>
<dc:subject>news words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:6dee00be324b/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/word-of-day-backwords.html">
    <title>Word of the day: backwords</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-06T14:52:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/word-of-day-backwords.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Backwords : the words printed on an article of clothing to show which way round it goes. We used to have tags, but now we have backwords.]]></description>
<dc:subject>childhood fambly words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:76544f5d3e47/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/word-of-day-psychophant.html">
    <title>Word of the day:psychophant</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-03T14:56:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/03/word-of-day-psychophant.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It joins three other words I’ve thought of for our political discourse: misinflame, misinflammation, and skeptiphobia. Unlike those words, psychophant didn’t come to me in a dream.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:4687d3160557/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/02/word-of-day-calf.html">
    <title>Word of the day: calf</title>
    <dc:date>2025-02-12T15:57:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/02/word-of-day-calf.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A stretch during Pilates made me wonder about the word calf : is the calf to the thigh as a calf is to a cow? Might the name for the body part have something to do with that part being smaller than another part?]]></description>
<dc:subject>etymology words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:2dd1836fd773/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/01/caramel.html">
    <title>Car(a)mel</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-29T14:53:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/01/caramel.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Two syllables, or three? Edwin L. Battistella considers the difference.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>pronunciation words</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:M.Leddy/b:57c11c555020/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/01/word-of-day-heyday.html">
    <title>Word of the day: heyday</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-27T19:35:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2025/01/word-of-day-heyday.html</link>
    <dc:creator>M.Leddy</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I have sometimes wondered about the word heyday, meaning “the period of one's greatest popularity, vigor, or prosperity,” or, archaically, “high spirits.” Might heyday have something to do with haying, with jolly rustics turning work into play in the fields?

Dictionaries laugh in my face.]]></description>
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