Beaut words: Peeng, peenging
peenge (Scotland) To complain childishly.
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Beaut words: Vulnerary
Used to promote the healing of wounds, as herbs or other remedies. a remedy for wounds. Citations for vulnerary She was now in an apartment of the castle, anxiously superintending the preparation of vulnerary herbs, to be applied to the wounded ...Sir Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose, 1819 Formerly country people cultivated Comfrey in their gardens for its virtue in wound healing, and the many local names of the plant testify to its long reputation as a vulnerary herb ...Maud Grieve, A Modern Herbal, 1931
WORDS: Boustrophedon
[boo-struh-feed-n, -fee-don] [noun] An ancient method of writing in which the lines run alternately from right to left and from left to right.
No, you don't pass - you die
NPR (Boston) June 7, 2013 While perusing Facebook the other day, we noticed an interesting post by our friend and colleague Michael Goldfarb in London, who was musing about the death — or, more accurately, how we announce it: When did the verb “to die” and the nouns derived from it—dead, death, etcetera — get excised from American usage to be replaced by “to pass.” Wind gets passed. I hereby authorize all 500 plus of my Facebook friends to say of me, when the moment comes, that “Michael died, is dead, his death was a tragedy,” etcetera. Please don’t say, “I’ve passed.” If you need a euphemism, say “I’ve shuffled,” as in shuffled off this mortal coil. Well, that got us thinking. Has “dying” gone out of style? And how do we know whether to say someone has died, versus “passed away”? We asked word guru Ben Zimmer, executive producer of The Visual Thesaurus and Vocabulary.com, and former “On Language” columnist for the New York Times. He told us: I wouldn’t say it’s falling out o...
Lack of attention
The important thing to realize here is that not all neglect is evidence of a lack of love. Sometimes, people only have so much they can give; sometimes that is not enough. There is healing in accepting that your parents did not give you as much attention as you required.
