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		<title>It Takes Two to Collude</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever seen two of your children huddled together and you know that they are plotting and planning and up to no good?  They are colluding on performing some sort of mischief.
Collude [kuh lood] is a verb that means to conspire.  Those two kids are definitely conspiring about something!  Collude also means to conspire [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmithie.wordpress.com&blog=526250&post=264&subd=wordsmithie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Logy after a Long Day</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was in the 5th grade, I collected marbles.  Or should I say I won them from playing unsuspecting boys who  refused to believe how good I was.  (After one or two games, you would have thought they would learn that they couldn&#8217;t beat THIS girl!)  My favorite marbles were the bumble bee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmithie.wordpress.com&blog=526250&post=260&subd=wordsmithie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Say One Thing And Mean Another</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word I want to share with you today is one that is rather confusing.  At least it is to me.  I recognize the root of the word.  And that is what throws me off track.
The word is restive.  Restive and rest both come from the same Latin root restāre.  But, somehow in their travel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmithie.wordpress.com&blog=526250&post=254&subd=wordsmithie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Fun with Fungible</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been reading Hot, Flat and Crowded by Thomas Friedman.  Interesting book.  He used the word fungible which I didn&#8217;t know.  So, I gamboled to the dictionary.  Most of the time when I come across a word that is new to me, I am delighted with it.  I want to write about it here.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmithie.wordpress.com&blog=526250&post=247&subd=wordsmithie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Pudency Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 04:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother makes quilts.  Gorgeous quilts.  Yet, when she talks about them, with gread pudency she claims &#8216;they aren&#8217;t anything special.&#8217;  I beg to differ.
Pudency [pyood-n-see] is a noun that means modesty.  So, my mother is very modest about her quilt making skills.  She has pudency.  She compares herself with her sister-in-law who does machine [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=wordsmithie.wordpress.com&blog=526250&post=245&subd=wordsmithie&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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