May 28 2008
PorchPix, No. 1: Gothic familiar
My porch, only more sinister … gothic — setting sun fires lingering icicle; last snow of the season, 10March08. First of a series.
Buffalonya dot com- Grandiloquent ... Grandtastic ... Grand Island 6 August 2008Bombastic tone lurks, ready to redden the face of anyone, like me, who decides to hold forth on language in the tones of an expert. For example ... . While posting a fine picture on my daily-post PhotoBlog Buffalonya (q.v.) featuring a noisy heron, that I took at the Environmental Cottage on Grand Island, New York, I hit on the word grandiloquent, whic […]
- Buffalonya coulda been Buffalony 5 August 2008When I made up the word Buffalonya, I was thinking about the alternate way of pronouncing bologna, or baloney. Come to think of it, fried baloney sandwich is a staple on cafe menus in this region. It strikes me that I could have simply stopped at Buffalony, a mash-up of Buffalo and NY, but the result, with a strong, too strong, whiff of baloney, would not […]
- Sylesheet, one word 4 August 2008Stylesheet is one word, or two. The best authorities vary on this question. There are stylesheets for written materials such as books, and there are stylesheets for Web pages at the level of CSS code. Sometimes stylesheet, sometimes style sheet. I took my pick.
- Grandiloquent ... Grandtastic ... Grand Island 6 August 2008
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