Can you dig it?

D-Words

Deliver  D letter D sooner D better.

Just a flashback from a long time ago!

I was wondering why there are so many words that start with D that mean to destroy:
decimate
destroy
devastate
demolish
denigrate
and detonate.

Also, another intriguing D word, a monosyllabic word, somewhat rare:
Delve.

Delve means to dig, uncover or pry. Can't be Greek. Must be ... ?

Glide into the Flow of Affluence

Glide.

a very slippery word, reminds me of slide...

I was inspired to write this after watching Brad Yates:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtaLOlMimDo&feature=related
Glide over to the video for a 6 minute refreshing experience.

Scrupulous

I often hear the word unscrupulous. I was wondering what the opposite might be. I wasn't sure that scrupulous was a word, but it definitely is. I wish we had more opportunities to use it.

Scruple is not so common, either. Actually, I think it is usually plural, scruples.

Have you no scruples?

Remarkable Majesty

Majesty is a majestic word. Seems somehow related to royalty, and to Magic.

Remarkable is an interesting word. Like interesting, it can be used to indicate something that is neutral, but sounds good. If you don't know what to make of something someone said, you can simply say, that's interesting, even if you really aren't impressed. Remarkable can also mean significant, important, wonderful or merely interesting.

It is remarkable that there are so many exquisite, majestic words in the English language.

Are you a maven?

I like that word: MAVEN.

It would make a good job title, or even a name. A girl's name, I think.

Maven means an expert or authority. It comes to us from Yiddish!

I'm also excited because I don't think I have posted about any other words from Yiddish before!

Oy vey! what chutzpah! I need to diversify!

Hide nor Hare

I saw neither hide nor hare of them. Or is it hyde nor hair. I'm not sure. I'll have to look it up.

Spelling, as easy as A-B-C?

Why do these homophones have such widley diffeernt spellings?

Which and Witch.

I don't often see them confused.

But I got a message recently, which spelled peak like peek. That's a common mistake. One which the spell check will not detect.

There was this thing called a dictionary and it gives proper spelling as well as usage for the word. I whish more peple used them.