The mail carrier was juggling a passel of parcels.

In a way, that sentence is redundant. For "passel" is a shortening of "parcel." In fact, "passel" is one of a whole passel of English words formed by dropping the "r" ...Read More

You've probably heard the joke about a Southerner visiting Harvard for the first time. When he asks a professor, "Can y'all tell me where the library's at?" the snobby scholar sniffs, "At Hahvahd, we refrain from ...Read More

bloviate \BLOH-vee-ayt\ (intransitive verb) - To speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner.

"It was one of the reasons that they had remained friends, despite Mather's inclinations to bloviate and ...Read More

tutelary \TOO-tuh-lair-ee; TYOO-\ (adjective) - Having the guardianship or charge of protecting a person or a thing; guardian; protecting; as, "tutelary goddesses."

"Thereupon, forty stripes were ordered for each of us, ...Read More