Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Word: Gemsoap
Category: Words to Think Upon
Misread News Item #2, The Earth
I misread the following news title today: “Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn’t Happen.”– Popular Mechanics, July 13, 2023 I really thought for an instant that the sentence went as below. I was quite worried for […]
Misread News Item
I misread the following news title today: “A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies”– Business Insider, July 28, 2023 I really thought for an instant that the sentence […]
Learning to Speak Tagalog, Lesson #1
20 million people in the Philippines speak the Tagalog language. 1.6 million people living in America speak it. Even 400,000 Canadians converse in Tagalog. So you can see how essential it is for the modern […]
Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Word: Mindcise
Sure, we all want to be in better shape. We should exercise more. Some. Once. But we don’t. Our excuses for avoiding physical extertion are legion. So many of us completely erase from our mind […]
Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Word: Loralist
We are so proud of ourselves. We finally wrote down every last item we wanted, only to forget that piece of paper. Augh! But we don’t have a word to describe this behavior. It’s high […]
I hope I Have Enough Quarters
Not too far from where I live is a business called “Coin Mart Jewelry.” They sell valuable coins. They have a market for coins, hence “Coin Mart.” They also sell jewelry, which is why that […]
Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Word: Hanselost
We’ve all lost something. Then we looked for it. Usually, the missing item was covered up or in an unexpected place. Sometimes, however, the missing object was in our hands. We went from room to […]
Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Word: Tidyfinding
The surest way to lose something is to misplace it. Then put something else on top of it You can’t see the thing you want to find because it’s covered. You don’t even know where […]
Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Word: Anti-productivity
We’ve all heard of productivity. We all know what it means. If we earned advanced degrees in economics or business, this concept enters our dreams in dark and mysterious ways nearly every night. Strange to […]