by Linda | Apr 14, 2017 | Authors
On the second day of the A-Z Challenge, I planned to write about Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual Obscure and Preposterous Words, a favorite book I acquired in the seventies, but I couldn’t find it. So, I opted to do J for Josefa (Mrs. Byrne’s...
by Linda | Apr 8, 2017 | Authors
D is for Detective, as in The Word Detective (2016) by John Simpson. I’d save this book for the “W” entry, but it’s due at the library and another word-hungry reader wants it. The book’s subtitle is “Searching for the Meaning of it all at the Oxford English...
