WORDS

My Brother Joe and I love "words."  At one time, Joe, Will Shortz, and I belonged to the National Puzzlers League, where we wrote and,or solved all kinds of word puzzles.  Joe's puzzling nom de plume is ISHMAEL, mine is AHAB. (Moby Dick or the Bible.)

Here are a few thoughts about words:

01.  LEAP ... to spring free from a surface or over an obstacle. (MW)

leap-frog ... a game in which a player bends down and is vaulted over by another. (MW)

(Leap-frog was the favorite game we eleven-year-olds liked to play, the next favorite was "Quaker Meeting. Leap-frog was rough-house; Quaker Meeting was definitely not.)

 leap-year ... every four years, we stick an extra day onto February.

Non-rhyming memory aid:

"Thirty days hacienda,

April, June and sombrero.

Sometimes one date leaps and grabs another day."

Here are some quotes from my files:

"Leapin' lizards!" says Robin to Batman.

"Mighty rivers can be leaped at their source."  Publious Syrus

"He  who would leap high, must take a long run."  Danish Proverb

"All growth is a leap in the dark."  Henry Miller

"My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky."  William Wordsworth

"Look before you leap."  Good Advice

"A leap of faith." Apostle Paul (formerly Saul.) ?

"One small step for a man ... one giant leap for mankind!"  Astronaut Neil Armstrong

Well! I've run out of time, and now I need to leap into the kitchen for lunch.  I guess I should have labeled this entry as WORD.

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adios