WORDS

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The large print edition for September 2022 was labeled "The Genius Edition."  It contained lots of contests and articles about words. I found it very interesting.

Here is some RD content, in no exact order:

Word:  cwm. ( A noun pronounced koom.  It describes the steep-sided hollow at the head of a valley.  Good word for Scrabble.)

Word: whoopensocker.  (A Wisconsin word used to describe something extraordinary or large.) 

Word:  yinz (A Pittsburgh slang word for "y'all.")

Word:  Haagen-Dazs (This is "short for nothing."  Reuben Mattus created the ice cream company in 1959.  "As a Jew, he wanted to give his company a Danish-sounding name in tribute to Denmark's reputation for saving Jews during World War II and settled on this nonsense phrase.")

Invention:  America's first chocolate-covered ice cream bar, the Eskimo Pie was patented in 1922.  It was renamed Edy's Pie in 2021 and was a big hit.  250,000 bars sold out within 24 hours.

All Downhill since Then

In 1922, New York City radio station WEAF broadcast the first ever radio commercial. It was 15 minutes long.

Centenarian

Smitty, the office boy from the comic strip that ran for 50 years, turned 100 this month.

Word:  muscle. (From Latin, musculus, little mouse, for the way flexed muscles look running under our skin.

Spanish sleep

When someone is day-dreaming in Spain, they are pensando en la immortalidad del cangrejo (pondering the immortality of the crab.

Telephone Talk

A telephone rang. "Hello! Is this your phone number 444-44-4444?" 

"Yes it is," came the reply.

"Great!  Could you call 911 for me?  I superglued my finger to the phone."

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