25 YEARS OF WORDSMITH.ORG Next
week marks 25 years of Wordsmith.org Founded on March 14, 1994, what began as a way
to share my love of words and language has since grown into a community of
people in 171 countries! People have met
here and gotten married. To celebrate,
we are organizing contests with prizes such as tours of offices of Oxford
English Dictionary in Oxford, UK and Merriam-Webster in Springfield,
Massachusetts, USA. Also, books,
dictionaries, and more. Anu Garg http://wordsmith.org/25years
tortilla strips
Cut tortillas into ½ inch
strips. Easiest way to do this is to
stack all the tortillas together, then use a pizza cutter to cut them all at
once. Next, light spray a large baking
sheet/jelly roll pan with cooking spray.
Add your tortilla strips and toss with 1 tablespoon vegetable oil.
Arrange strips in a single layer and lightly season with freshly cracked salt. Bake at 425 degrees F for 12-16 minutes or
until light golden brown. https://carlsbadcravings.com/chicken-tortilla-soup/
"Card games were present at any gathering, and if you did not join in, you
were not considered rude but dead." "Experience had shown me
that such tidbits could be formed into feasts if used correctly." The Stockholm Octavo, a novel by Karen
Engelmann
Author Karen Engelmann: I was born, raised and educated in Iowa,
concentrating on the visual arts. I have
a BFA in design and drawing from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. I then moved to Sweden to do graduate work in
scene painting. I never completed that
degree or painted a single set, but worked as an illustrator and designer in
Malmö, Sweden for nine years. New York
City was next, and I continued working in print design. It was during this period that I became passionate
about writing and eventually received an MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard
College in Vermont. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1176708.Karen_Engelmann
In American and Canadian
English, tidbit is
the preferred spelling
of the noun referring
to (1) a choice morsel or (2) a pleasing bit of something. Titbit is
preferred everywhere else. Neither
spelling is right or wrong. Titbit is
older, but tidbit is
etymologically justifiable (the first syllable likely comes from the archaic
colloquialism tid,
meaning tender). And tidbit is
not so new itself; it was well established in American English by the early
1800s. https://grammarist.com/spelling/tidbit-titbit/
A few weeks before the 1929 stock market crash,
cosmetics salesman Jack Bennett overbid his hand, failed to finesse for the queen of spades and didn't
make his contract. When Myrtle Bennett
called her philandering husband a "bum bridge player," Jack smacked
her across the face. Minutes later, she
put two bullets in his back. The
infamous "bridge murder" is the centerpiece of The Devil's Tickets, Gary Pomerantz's deliciously
detailed and splendidly written account of the emergence of bridge as America's
No. 1 pastime. Pomerantz shows how
Romanian-born Ely Culbertson, the debonair, chain-smoking "colossus of
cards," capitalized on the case to build a bridge empire in America. Part showman and part charlatan, Culbertson claimed
that bridge was a metaphor for modern marriage and the "battle of the
sexes." He became the game's patron
saint by teaming up with Jo Dillon, his elegant, steady and cerebral wife, to
famously defeat icons Sidney Lenz and Oswald Jacoby in the "Bridge Battle
of the Century" in 1931. https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106315862
folderol
From before Shakespeare’s “There
was a lover and his lass, / With a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonny no”, right
down to the present day, nonsense words have been a regular feature of song
lyrics. You might think that it’s a
stretch to suggest another meaningless la-la lyric filler is the origin of this
usefully dismissive word. However, that
indeed seems to be its origin, although the usual form until relatively
recently was falderal rather
than folderol. There are many traditional rhymes and songs
with variants of “fal-de-ral” in them somewhere. For example, Robert Bell noted these words of
an old Yorkshire mummer’s play in his Ancient
Poems, Ballads and Songs of the Peasantry Of England of
1857: “I hope you’ll prove kind with
your money and beer, / We shall come no more near you until the next year. /Fal
de ral, lal de lal, etc.” And Sir Walter
Scott included a few lines of an old Scottish ballad inThe Bride of Lammermoor (1819): “There was a haggis in Dunbar, / Fal de ral,
etc. / Mony better and few waur, / Fal de ral, etc.” Charles Dickens had gentle fun with this
habit in his Sketches By Boz of
1836-7: “Smuggins, after a considerable
quantity of coughing by way of symphony, and a most facetious sniff or two,
which afford general delight, sings a comic song, with a fal-de-ral —
tol-de-ral chorus at the end of every verse, much longer than the verse
itself.” It was around 1820 that this
traditional chorus is first recorded as a term for a gewgaw or flimsy thing
that was showy but of no value, though it had to wait until the 1870s before it
started to be widely used. http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-fol1.htm
Crispy Breadcrumb Fried Eggs by Lindsay-Jean Hard serves 2-4
These eggs are exactly what they sound like: fried eggs combined with teeny croutons. I like them on top of vegetables or rice
bowls. You can add a sprinkling of herbs
like dill to the pan, but not too much while you’re cooking the eggs—you don’t
want to introduce excess water. As
written, this recipe makes fried eggs with little salty, crunchy breadcrumb
bits embedded in them. Excerpted
from Cooking
with Scraps: Turn Your Peels, Cores, Rinds, and Stems into Delicious Meals by Lindsay-Jean Hard (Workman Publishing). Copyright (c) 2018. https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/crispy-breadcrumb-fried-eggs
The Toledo Lucas County Public Library partnered with
Cherry Street Mission Ministries and several community groups to make the
Appold Learning Center in Toledo, Ohio a reality. The
center was made possible in part due to a generous donation from Jim and Pat
Appold. TLCPL loaned books, furniture
and computers to the center and provided a training session on successful
strategies for volunteering in a library.
Buckeye Broadband provided servers and access to the Internet as
well. Meg Delaney, Main Library manager, indicated that Dan Rogers,
president and CEO of Cherry Street Mission Ministries, brought up the idea of
opening a library in the center more than two years ago. The planning process really took off in early
2018 when, in response to the Library’s decision to temporarily close for
construction, leaders from TLCPL and several community groups began meeting
regularly at the Main Library. Leaders
from local government and area community organizations talked through programs
and services that would be the most beneficial and implementation plans. The center is located on the second floor of
Cherry Street Mission Ministries Life Revitalization Center at 1501 Monroe
Street in downtown Toledo. The building
was once home to Macomber/Whitney high school students and is being renovated
as the Mission adds programs and services.
The center is run entirely by volunteers. For more information about volunteer
opportunities, please contact volunteer@cherrystreetmission.org or
419.214.6657. https://www.toledo.com/news/2019/02/04/daily-dose/appold-learning-center-open-in-downtown-toledo/
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 2056
March 5, 2019
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