I’m having breakfast as I write this. There’s nothing terribly unusual about that: it is the morning after all. But do you know what that word breakfast means?
Breakfast
etymology
Alma Mater
What was your old school like? Have you ever gone back there, to your alma mater?
Mind your own Business!
If you’re very busy, what noun do you use to describe the state you’re in? Would it be… busyness? No, that doesn’t look or sound right, does it? It’s kind of uncanny, because it sounds like business, but it isn’t, and it looks weird with the Y before the suffix -ness.
For Crying Out Loud!
Usually, when people cry, they cry out loud. But of course you can cry silently, can’t you? That hasn’t always been the case though.
Indiana
I was reading the blurb on the book I’ve just started reading, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, when I got a little surprise.
February
T.S Eliot wrote that April is the cruellest month. He obviously didn’t write that part of “The Waste Land” in February.
Alienist
I’ve come across this word a few times recently, while reading “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, by H.P Lovecraft.
English-Language Thoughts 