Bill W

I knew someone would post this eventually.

It's name possibly comes from an Algonquin word, muscascus, which literally means 'it is red'.

Muskrats can be found in swampsm, marshes, and wetland. You can find them from the northern areas of North American down to the Gulf coast. It is a rodent, like the rat and beaver.

@Myr 2: its fur You kind of cut this short. What about its fur?

Chapter 38 – Time With the McCaskills The time at the cabin was going very well, and Gramps, Pops, Faith, and Hope were going to join us for a cookout on the weekend. In order to prepare for it, on Friday we started getting ready for the cookout that would be held the following day. Devin and I went out fishing with Pa in the morning so we’d have plenty of fish to eat, while Ma was taking some venison steaks and other cuts of meat out of the freezer to thaw. This meat was all from variou

I wish to second this sentiment. The anthology team does a marvelous job.

Maunder can also apply to writing in a lengthy rambling or incoherent way. Although from my observation, the authors on this site do just the opposite of maundering.

The original meaning of maunder was 'to beg', but in the 17th century century it changed to its present day meaning.

I hope that I don't have maundering away in my future.

I'm already working on my story for the 'Long May You Run - A Tribute to Carlos Hazday'.

@sandrewn wrote: I have been to my fair share of weddings, but 'a nosegay' is a new one on me. I think 'a bouquet' will remain my first thought, in the time I have left. Brides typically carry a nosegay up the aisle. The term tussie-mussie (also tussy-mussy) comes from the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), when the small bouquets became a popular fashion accessory. Typically, tussie-mussies include floral symbolism from the language of flowers, and therefore may be used to send a message to the recipient.[5] In modern times the term specifically refers to small bouquets in a conical metal holder, or the holder itself, particularly when used at a white wedding. So I assume a collection of black or dead flowers meant 'you're on my hit list'.

I'm thankful for my biological family and my GA family. but it's not fair that you tell us it was "Tony the Tiger, Greeeeeeeeeeat!" for you and not explain yourself. I want to know the details. Did you build a snowman or make tons of money plowing out your neighbor's driveways, since you live in the snowy Canadian wild? Enquiring minds want to know. LOL

Shakespeare used this term in his play to mean flowers that were pinned to the garments a person was wearing, such as a corsage or a multiflowered boutonniere. I'm not sure if this was thought to disguise body odor or to disguise the general smell in the area for the person wearing the flowers, because Medieval cities were filled with a variety of disgusting smells. You might have also heard the following nursery rhyme: as a child Ring Around the Rosie Pockets Full of Posies Ashes, Ashes We All Fall Down This nursery rhyme was about the Bubonic Plague or Black Death. The 'Ring Around the Rosie' referred to the red ring that first formed, and then it turned into a black boil. 'Pockets Full of Posies' is because at the time people thought diseases, such as this. were spread by smells, so the kept pockets full of fresh flowers to keep from getting the disease. Doctors at the time would wear masks with long beaks that were filled with flowers or other strong smells when treating patients. 'Ashes, Ashes' refers to burning the dead bodies, and 'We All Fall Down' refers to the huge number of people that contracted the disease. So nosegay were very important to people during the Middle Ages.

And today nosegay makes it sound as if only a person's nose is gay. Since many people might react to the gay portion of the word as having to do with a person's sexual orientation, I doubt this term will be used very often in the present day.

During a normal ejaculation, the male will release between 1.5 to 5 ml of spermatozoa. Since there can be 20 million to 150 million spermatozoon per ml, it means there can be between 30 million to 750 million spermatozoon in a normal ejaculation. However, there can only be one winner to fertilize an ovum (egg).

Spermatozoon is derived from Greek: sperma (seed) and zoion (animal) - It was adapted into English in the 19th century.

Spermatozoon (singular) spermatozoa (plural)

From the Latin pejor 'meaning worse' to the Late Latin pejoratus meaning 'to become worse' or 'to make worse'. More commonly you might hear the word pejorative used. It can be either or noun or adjective. It also comes from pejor 'meaning worse' to Late Latin pejorare 'to make worse' to French pejoratif, which in the late 19th century became pejorative pejorative means to express contempt or disapproval - synonyms for pejorative are disparaging, derogatory, deprecatory. Pejorative in a sentence: The team captain came under fire for making pejorative comments about his/her teammates.

Me too. I'm up all night and usually sleep during the day, which is hard when I have doctor or dentist appointments. Most times I end up going on very little sleep. I usually go to sleep between 8:00 and 10:00 and then wake up before 7:00, but I'm wired today and working on a project. I'll probably just doze of in my office chair.

nyctophilia is the condition of being happy or comfortable in the dark.

Strange things can happen at night in the dark. Nocturnal is derived from a list of Latin words. nox, noct (meaning night), nocturnus (of the night), nocturnalis (belonging to the night), and then in the late 15th century it was adopted by the Middle French as nocturnal.

Both of those observations are very true. @sandrewn posts some incredible photos of spiders and tarantulas, and the photographers that take the photos must have a great deal of patience. However, I can't see that there would be much money in a profession of taking photos of arachnids.

Just as some parents won't accept a homosexual or transgendered child, thinking they are defective or they're spawn of the devil, maybe Mac feels he'd be pushing it if he told them he was a skinwalker and can change into all these different forms. Mac's parents don't even know about Devin and his father, so throwing this at them that they are skinwalkers and cannot merely transition into creatures as small as a mouse and as large as bigfoot may be something more than they can handle. And that's not even considering that their son and his partner are going to live for hundreds of years, like Noah and Methuselah, especially since they've lost two other children. It may seem unfair and unnatural.

I think @drpaladin my have mentioned this yesterday, but dichotomy comes from the Greek, dikhotomia, were dikho means 'in to, or apart', and tomia means 'cutting'.

When I woke up this morning and saw The Word of the Day, I experienced deja vu, since we had talked about this yesterday. But then I realized we merely talked about its use, not the meaning, so a 👍 to @Myr.