Here at “Weird Words,” we’re awash in oddball vocab from To Kill a Mockingbird — which my lit. class is finishing at the CHEF home-school co-op in Montoursville. Last week, using the order in which they appear in the book, we started with chattel, flivver, beadle, scuppernong and hoodoo — some of these being tied
Chef is a French word that’s distantly related to both chief and the Latin cap (“head”). But in Lycoming County, it can be an acronym—that is, a pronounceable abbreviation like NATO, AWOL and YOLO. To be specific, here in Central PA, CHEF stands for Christian Home Educators’ Fellowship—a homeschool co-op that’s been meeting weekly in
“What on earth does that mean?” This query is pretty much the only connection between our new list of weird words and its publication date: Earth Day — April 22. Currently standing at exactly 3200 oddball terms, my running list tends to generate that question when others look through it. But, sad to say, I
As regular readers of “Weird Words” know, your local lexicographer keeps a massive running-list of oddball vocab. Laid out in space-saving, three-column format, it currently totals nearly 3,200 terrific terms. For April — since it is of course the year’s fourth month — I simply flipped to page four and selected a dozen: Bindi (BIN-dee,
Before the summer movie season kicks into full gear, you may wish grab some recent releases that you missed in theaters. For folks who like thrillers, here are three solid picks now available for streaming: Dead of Winter – Having played theatrically in our area for exactly one week, this good-not-great drama is saved by
