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Thursday, November 08, 2007

Airplane book, thrival

Recent interesting catchwords from the Double-Tongued Dictionary are:

airplane book n. a short, easy-to-read book.

thrival n. doing well in a place, at an occupation, or at an undertaking; the act of thriving.

“Thrivation”?

I was disappointed when Canada issued its first two-dollar coin and did not put two loons on the reverse. The dollar coin had one loon and was called a “loonie” the two-dollar coin could have become a “dubloonie” or “dubloon” for short.

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