Month: October 2009

10.30.09 Candy Classic

October 30, 2009 Mike Keeler
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It’s hard work making a simple icon. Imagine you’re a factory worker in Cincinnati way back in 1880.  It’s mid-summer, there’s no air conditioning, and the temperature inside the plant is well over 100 degrees. You’re dressed in a heavy leather apron.  You’re handed a 45-pound pail of boiling hot…
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10.16.09 Word!

October 16, 2009 Mike Keeler
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Today is both National Boss Day AND World Dictionary Day!  And so with serendipity comes etymology. The Middle English word for “lump” is “boce.”  From that we get “boss,” or protuberance. It’s common on plants and animals, and also in architecture meaning “stud” or ornamental projection.  There’s a boss which…
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