Tag Archives: Rae Armantrout

Scrabble Day: Tense, Tenuous, and Tender

Posted on April 13, 2021 by wordcloud9

On April 13, 1899, Alfred Butts was born. He was an American architect, and the inventor of the board game Scrabble. On April 13, 1947, Rae Armantrout was born. She is an American poet, the winner of the 2009 National … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: EERIE

Posted on October 18, 2019 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What a lot of words we have in English for the things that give us that unsettling tingly feeling! eer-ie – adjective uncanny, sinister, ghostly, unnatural, unearthly, odd, supernatural, otherworldly, strange, abnormal, weird, freakish, creepy, scary, spooky, freaky, frightening, bone-chilling, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling . . . Middle English, originally of northern English-Scots origin, … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: April 13, 2019

Posted on April 13, 2019 by wordcloud9

April 13th is Make Lunch Count Day * Peach Cobbler Day Scrabble Day * Thomas Jefferson Day * _____________________________________ MORE! Nella Larsen, Samuel Beckett and Eudora Welty, click

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ON THIS DAY: April 13, 2018

Posted on April 13, 2018 by wordcloud9

April 13th is Donate Life/Blue & Green Day * Make Lunch Count Day * Peach Cobbler Day Scrabble Day * Thomas Jefferson Day * _________________________________________ MORE! John Dryden, Eudora Welty and Seamus Heaney, click

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Word Cloud: EERIE

Posted on October 27, 2017 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD What a lot of words we have in English for the things that give us that unsettling tingly feeling! eer-ie – adjective uncanny, sinister, ghostly, unnatural, unearthly, odd, supernatural, otherworldly, strange, abnormal, weird, freakish, creepy, scary, spooky, freaky, frightening, bone-chilling, spine-chilling, hair-raising, blood-curdling . . . Middle English, originally of northern English-Scots … Continue reading →

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