True confessions of an unrepentant English major
January 7, 2023
I’m 84 ½ years of age, which means that over the course of my life, I have taken more than a billion breaths and
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I’m 84 ½ years of age, which means that over the course of my life, I have taken more than a billion breaths and
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Welcome to the website woven for wordaholics, logolepts, and verbivores. Carnivores eat meat; herbivores eat plants and vegetables; verbivores devour words. If you are heels over head (as well as head over heels) in love with words, tarry here a while to graze or, perhaps, feast on the English language. Ours is the only language in which you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway and your nose can run and your feet can smell.