by Dictionary Scoop Cats may be mysterious, but let’s not give them credit for magic tricks they don’t actually perform. Over the years, these curious creatures have picked up numerous myths—some harmless, others simply misleading. Today, we’re debunking 12 common cat myths and setting the record straight. 1-Black cats bring bad luck Poor black cats! …
Another NFL Sunday With Time Ticking Away
by Kevin Burton Jerry Glanville was coaching the Atlanta Falcons when NFL Films famously caught him on camera criticizing a referee. “You’re in the N-F-L and that stands for “not for long” when you make calls like that.” Glanville is one of the most colorful figures in NFL history. You wouldn’t have …
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These Eleven Idioms All Make The Grade
by Dictionary Scoop A lot of slang terms and everyday words have surprisingly rich backstories tied to real historical events and practices. These expressions once described literal experiences before turning into figures of speech. What was their first, literal meaning? 1-Run-of-the-mill “Run-of-the-mill” these days means something ordinary or unremarkable, like in the sentence: The …
Goalball Gives Blind Players Community
by Todd Strain KNSD TV7 San Diego If you were looking at the Stagecoach gym floor in Carlsbad during a recent Sunday, you'd see athletic shoes, knee pads, goals and balls — just like your average sporting event. The only difference is no one on the court that day could see. This was …
Blind Woman To Wed After Triple Transplant
By Ernie Mundell HealthDay News Stricken with cancer in infancy, Jessica Lopez endured tumor-fighting treatments that saved her young life but also left her with lasting heart damage. By the time she reached her early 30s, Lopez, who was left blind by her cancer, also found herself in triple-organ failure — her heart, …
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Making The Case For Ten Underused Words
by Dictionary Scoop English is full of beautiful terms that we use every day, but it also holds many other gorgeous words that, unfortunately, we have stopped using over time. Here are ten 10 beautiful English words that we don't use much anymore -but definitely should. 1-Murmuration "Murmuration" is a beautiful word in our language that …
A River Of Words, Words About Rivers
by Kevin Burton Residents of one Alaska neighborhood in my newspaper’s coverage area sought to correct a flooding problem by putting rocks in a river. Riprap, they called it, which is, as I would learn, “a foundation or sustaining wall of stones or chunks of concrete thrown together without order.” From that …
Good News About Life Savers Among Us
by Kevin Burton Then Apostle Paul said better than I ever will: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on …
How Deep Is Your Love?, Good Question
by Kevin Burton My sister and I had one last shared musical moment, in the days before her death Aug. 25 of last year. We had thousands of them over half a century together. What I wouldn’t give to have a few more of them now. The final one came last August, …
Hard Lessons In Death And Unforgiveness
by Kevin Burton This bit of Burton family lore started small, sprung up unexpected. We had a maid named Mrs. Long. This was before the basement at my father’s house in Yellow Springs, Ohio was finished, when you could still practice hockey on roller skates and shoot a plastic puck into a 4-by-6 …
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