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The Unfact™ Of The Week.

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In Japan the art of bonsai was originally used to create miniature crops that could be grown in small areas.

私は小さい方法で欺かない!

Things Ray Says #63:

“…and deliver us from weasels, amen.”

(Insert rimshot here.)

“I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it.”

William Shakespeare

Happy Monday!

A number of word related sites have been featured here, but unlike most The Word Spy deals with new words. Not one-time or “stunt” words, but useful and polished neologisims. We like it because not only does “metrosexual” appear, so does the backlash term, “retrosexual”. Anything that gets as much play as “metrosexual” needs a backlash.

The site is easy to navigate and is searchable in a number of ways. It has a date sorted archive that goes back to 1996 and provides snapshot views of pop culture over the last, almost, decade.

Our favorite word so far is “micro-fiction”. We’re overdue for another piece.

We want a man-cave! Wait, no, We live in one. Never mind.

From Merriam-Webster.

¹Bane

Pronunciation: ‘bAn

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English bana; akin to Old High German bano: death

1 a obsolete : KILLER, SLAYER b : POISON c : DEATH, DESTRUCTION (stop the way of those that seek my bane — Philip Sidney) d : WOE

2 : a source of harm or ruin : CURSE (national frontiers have been more of a bane than a boon for mankind — D. C. Thomson)

“Our natures do pursue, like rats that ravin down their proper bane, a thirsty evil; and when we drink we die.” – Measure for Measure, Act 1, Scene 2

The Unfact™ Of The Week.

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Linoleum™ was invented by and named for Nobel Prize winning chemist Linus Pauling.

Really. I’m not just Pauling your leg or trying to walk all over you.