Off the Clock

Saturday bonus content for word nerds—thoughts that fall somewhere between Timeless & Timely, often about language, literature, or that are just plain fun.

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Clichéd Efforts
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This is an entry in the Saturday series of Timeless & Timely called “Off the Clock, where we focus on words, a quirk of history or literature, or …
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A Defining Presence
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Subscribe now“memory (MEM-ə-rē), n. the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving impressions, or of recalling or recognizing previous …
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High Flight
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by Joos de Momper the Younger (Wikimedia Commons - CC BY-SA 3.0)“After midnight the moon set and I was alone with …
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A Hard Scrabble Existence
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“One should use common words to say uncommon things.” — Arthur SchopenhauerIf you’re a word nerd, odds are, you enjoy playing games like Wordle or …
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Banished Words for 2023
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“As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.” — …
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A Newsletter with Something In It
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“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.” — Tertullian The new year has arrived, and for some people who considered 2022 thoroughly “meh,” 2023 might seem …

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