Proverbs and sayings

This blog collects together various maxims and sayings and facts about words, etc, of interest to me and hopefully to you.

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10 Plum Words

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Plum Plume Plump Plumpen Plummy Plumage Plummet Plumber Plumule Plumbago

10 Pum words

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PUM Puma Pump Pumice Pumpkin Pumpking Pummel Pumpernickel Pumelo Pumpjack
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Get over on your own side

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The first 18 years of my life I lived in the same street with my parents. However, I spent the first five years in a different house. Until ...
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Wagons

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Several of my uncles were lorry drivers and bus drivers. They tended to refer to their lorries as wagons, a  northern rather than a Welsh ex...
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10 Welsh Words Now In The OED

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Calennig, n. A New Year's gift. Also: the practice or custom observed on the morning of New Year's Day, usually by children, of goin...
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10 Izzard Words

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Izzard (zed) Blizzard (severe snowstorm) Dizzard (foolish person) Gizzard (part of a bird's stomach) Lizard (reptile) Nizzard (someone f...
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10 Scavenger words

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There was a news article recently about mudlarks. It got me thinking of these various terms. Beachcomber (someone who  walks along a beach l...
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Better Than Aaron

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Rather than Moses, Aaron or a Levite - all sinners, all men with weaknesses and subject to death - it is God manifest in the flesh who minis...
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10 Marriage words

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1. Tied the knot 2. Entered wedlock 3. Entered the marriage bond 4. Entered into marital union 5. Became yoked together 6. Entered the conju...
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He sits down to enjoy what he has done

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It is not that Christ ceases to act for his people in heaven. No, their forerunner has passed into the heavens to serve them and do them goo...
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