Words – Dara Rochlin Book Doctor

Spoonerisms

A “spoonerism” is a slip of the tongue where the speaker inadvertently swaps the consonants or vowels in a phrase.

“We take in sensory information and combine it with what we expect, and we extract meaning . . . When

If you recall, back in… October… (seems like a lifetime ago in this pandemic), I had a post titled “FAVORITE

Do you have a word list, a list of favorite words that you have kept forever? I do. I guess

Today’s Lunchbox Lesson: ALUMNUS, ALUMNI, ALUMNA, and ALUMNAE These words all describe attending or graduating from a particular school, but

Thanks to something called ablaut reduplication — a rule stating that, if you repeat a word and change an internal vowel, the

Friday Word of the Day elide verb \ i-ˈlīd \ elided; eliding transitive verb 1 a : to suppress or

One early spelling of “Halloween” was “All Hallows’ Even (Even = evening). The “all” and “s” were dropped, “hallows’ ”

lemma [lem-uh] noun In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words

What is the connection between Ogden Nash and James Thurber? Besides both being humorists, they published at The New Yorker during the

Continuing on the Give A Lick: Literary Postage Stamp week, today I will be featuring Flannery O’Connor and Ralph Ellison. The

Inspiration comes from many places. Today’s blog post inspiration came from the Richard Wright quote of last week, when I

A groundbreaking new study from the Gallant Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley is transforming how scientists understand language