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#WordOfTheDay

blunderbuss

/ˈblʌndəbʌs/
noun
1 historical A short large-bored gun firing balls or slugs.
2 An action or way of doing something regarded as lacking in subtlety and precision.

Origin
Mid 17th century: alteration (by association with blunder) of Dutch donderbus, literally ‘thunder gun’.

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A blunderbuss is not suitable for long range accuracy.

Wicked Wonderful Wordies

#WordPlay #wordies #SundaySillies

Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around a square.

Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.

Please use CW/DM to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.

Hint: beyond expectations

@gg

Thanks for connecting.

With passage of our time.
We can share words
Singly or in herds.
Some may even rhyme.

Do you have a sense of which account will become your primary?

I went from a generic instance to this .art and have felt more welcome than I might have expected. A great admin has helped.

Marketers are manglers of our language.

Example of the moment:

Publisher's Clearing House are equating two people's overlapping lifetimes with "forever" as they encourage you to buy magazines in an attempt to get $5000 a week "forever".

@spz

Danke.
Thank you for making a connection.

The wildflower/weed posts are a "summer" thing. Right now, outdoor plants are relatively dormant with evergreen ground cover not usually considered a weed.

Enjoy the posts you can. Ignore the ones you need to.

Poker players resolutely say "four of a kind" when technically they should probably say "I have a tetrad of of aces".

#WordOfTheDay

And of course a group of four singers is always a quartet instead of a tetrad.

We have to recognize word overlap in languages like English which are drawn from so many other sources.

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tetrad

/ˈtɛtrad/
noun
technical
A group or set of four.

Origin
Mid 17th century: from Greek tetras, tetrad- ‘four, a group of four’.

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The Kingston Trio was one singer short of a quartet, technically a triad, not a tetrad.

@Talon @PaladinQuinn

It seems all too common that the "job" for a member of congress is to get re-elected, and campaign money seems to be the primary means of keeping the job.

We, individuals, do not supply such large chunks of money as to get a significant voice.

@PaladinQuinn

And yet, how many members of congress turn down donations to their campaigns (no matter which party)?

@Ayior

Well, shoot! Of course I did.

I've used the Delete and Re-draft option to fix it. Thanks for noticing.

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isagogics

/ˌʌɪsəˈɡɒdʒɪks/
plural noun
treated as singular Introductory study, especially of the literary and external history of the Bible prior to exegesis.

Origin
Mid 19th century: plural of isagogic, via Latin from Greek eisagōgikos, from eisagōgē ‘introduction’, from eis ‘into’ + agein ‘to lead’.

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Flipping through the WotD might be considered isagogics prior to a thorough examination of the unabridged dictionary.

@neomorph

Two you might consider:

Okular - better known as a PDF reader from the KDE group

EPUBReader - Firefox add-on

@freemo

Sadly, the main spam magnet is my landline phone and it does not have apps like that.

Love hearing about the Google tool, though. Thank you.

@freemo

How does the screen deal with spam callers that makes you happy?

Someone from Milton Florida just called. I don't know anybody there and they didn't leave a message...

...should I be concerned?

(Phone Spam)

Social Media

Inspect
Reflect
Inject
Connect!

#SmallPoems
(tiny, really)

@dirtycommo

I had the good fortune to get it from my hotel room porch on a vacation in Maine.

The equivalent daytime shot is somewhat less evocative, I guess.

@wordsmith

Thank you for the shiny word!

I've embedded it in today's WotD.

I am constrained from making it the dominant term because the forum where my "work" starts has already used the term. They are a picky group when it comes to repeats.