In recent weeks at Webb’s “Weird Words,” we’ve extolled a relatively new addition to the august ranks of trustworthy English dictionaries: The Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary. Though it’s been around for nearly for 25 years, I only just learned of it — and I’m gladly surprised by its thoroughness and reliability. So, for this week’s
As it nears its historic 200-year anniversary, Williamsport’s Repasz Band plans to make good use of a $5,000 grant from the Williamsport Lycoming Competitive Grant Program at First Community Foundation Partnership of Pennsylvania (FCFP). According to conductor Jeff Dent, the funds enabled Repasz to commission a special composition by Lycoming County native Jeremy Leidhecker. “Our
I’ll wager that virtually all my readers have seen a movie starring Robert Duvall. And it’s a similarly safe bet that everyone has loved at least one of these. I say this with confidence because the celebrated actor — who died Feb. 16 at the age of 95 — had such a long and wide-ranging
Here at Weird Words, I could never do these columns without a good dictionary — several, in fact. At the same time, I also couldn’t do them if I had to check every single word in every dictionary I own. (Trust me — that is starting to get out of hand.) So I have 5-6
“My whole way of viewing life has changed,” says one participant in the C. S. Lewis Institute, which is now taking registrants for its second year in Central PA. With branches in Pittsburgh, Carlisle and Philadelphia — along with 11 other states and such countries as Ireland, Japan and Kenya — CSLI was named for
