One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for January 30, 2024

There is no such thing!

That’s how it starts until the Alphabet agencies take over….

Is that like peppermint or spearmint, or is it more herbaceous like catnip, basil, or sage?

This brought back a great memory. My grandmother had an Oxford English Dictionary that was used that way.

I don’t think that’s the way to boost your vocabulary, Ruthie!

Pern-amint, hmmm… I think that’s the flavor of gum preferred by Dragonriders….

Oh, Ruthie, what now?

something I always wondered, if you don’t know how to spell or pronounce a word and all you have is the paper version of a dictionary how can you look it up?(back in the 50s our local A&P grocery was selling a few pages of a dictionary every week. the whole thing was over a foot thick with 1600 pages of small type)my mother-a former school teacher-always told me to ‘look it up’ whenever I asked her how to spell