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WORD FACTS • Just 43 words account for half of all words commonly used, and of those, just nine account for a quarter of the words used: and, be, have, it, of, the, to, will, you.

• About half of all words in use are nouns. The most commonly used verbs are: say, get, go, know, think, see, make, come, take, want, give, and mean.

• There are 44 distinct sounds in English, divided equally between vowels and consonants.

The Italian language has only 27 sounds, and Hawaiian only 13.

• The most common vowel sound in English is called the “schwa” and it’s a cross between “eh” and “uh” as in the second syllable of the word “animal.” Nearly every multisyllabic word contains that sound.

• The letter combination of “ough” has more pronunciations than any other: bough, bought, cough, dough, hiccough, rough, thoroughbred, through, and trough. The single syllable with the most different ways of spelling it is “air” which can be spelled 38 different ways, including ere, heir, ayr, aire, are, ear, etc. (continued next page)

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BUILDING BLOCKS • About half of all English words came from other languages, and English absorbed words from about 350 different languages. Here are a few samples: • “Mobile vulgus” is Latin for “fickle crowd” and was shortened into our “mob.”

• The phrase “poppycock” originally started as a Dutch word meaning “soft dung.”

• “Bonanza” comes from the Spanish word meaning “prosperity.”

• The Norse phrase “vind-auga” meaning “eye of the wind” became the word “window.”

• “Exchequer” is French for the counting table where the king’s revenue was piled up and totaled and gives us the word “check.”

• “Curmudgeon” started out as the French “coeur méchant” meaning “evil heart.”

• “Mayday” came from the French “m’aidez” meaning “help me.”

• The Italian “banca rotto” meaning “broken bench” became the English word “bankrupt” because when a banker in the open air markets of Italy ran out of money, his bench was broken.

• “Hodgepodge” comes from “hochepot,” a French legal term that originally meant gathering things in order to divide them equally; then it came to mean a dish combining a number of ingredients.

• In Latin, the word “bullire” meant “to boil” or bubble. That word went into Old Italian as “garbuglio” meaning “a mess” and that went into Italian as “garbuzo” which was adopted by the Normans who took it to England where it became the word “garbage.”

• In the 1500s there was a silver mine near the town of Joachimsthal, Germany. Silver coins minted from silver mined there were first called “Joachimsthaler” which was shortened to “thaler” before being transformed into “daler” before becoming our “dollar.” continued on the next page

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By Sam Mazzotta IS YOUR PET READY FOR AIR TRAVEL DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I just read the letter from a reader who’s been asked to return a cat to its original owner. I hope that if they send the cat back, they don’t send it by air! Animals are put in the airplane’s baggage compartment, which is not heated. I recently was on a plane with a seat display showing the outside temperature as 70 below zero. -- Sarah S., via email DEAR SARAH: I’ll probably hear otherwise from a few readers, but transporting pets on aircraft is fairly safe, and they are not exposed to sub-zero temperatures while in the cargo hold. Of course, we’ve all heard about pets that were injured or died while being transported, so I looked into this claim.

According to Pets Express, one of several companies that specialize in transporting animals via commercial aircraft, “Air travel is as safe for pets as it is for people. Your pet will travel in a special cargo compartment [which is] both climate controlled and pressurized for your pet’s safety and comfort. It is on the same air circulation system as the cabin.”

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NYMS • In Greek, “onym” means “word” or “name.”

It’s now the root of words such as anonymous, pseudonym, and synonym.

• The word “contronym” denotes words that can have two contradictory meanings. “Sanction” means both permission to do something, or forbidding it from being done. “Fast” can mean both moving quickly or stuck in place. A horse that has “bolted” is moving away quickly but a door that is bolted is shut tight.

• There are also capitonyms, which are words that change pronunciation and meaning when capitalized. For instance: “Please polish the Polish tea set.” “Herb loves herbs.” “Mt. Rainier is always rainier.” “I own a mobile home in Mobile.” “It’s always nice in Nice.”

• Then there’s the confusion of heteronyms, which are words with the same spelling but different pronunciations and meanings: “The winds began to buffet the outdoor buffet.” “The sewer threw her sewing into the sewer.” “The post office is resorting to resorting the mail.”

“The entrance of the cave will entrance you.”

“The boy moped because he couldn’t have a moped.” “The content of this gift will make you content.” “He held the lead in the race till his legs felt like lead.”

VERSATILE WORDS • The word “polysemy” means the condition of having many meanings. For instance, the verb “to get” can mean “procure” (I’ll get your coat), “become” (I get scared easily), or “understand” (I get it).

• The single word with the most definitions, requiring up 60,000 words to define, and having 58 uses as a noun, 126 as a verb, and 10 as an adjective, is the simple word “set.” The word “run” comes in second place. Even the word “what” requires 15,000 words to define, taking up five pages of the Oxford English Dictionary. continued on the next page

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Buying a house is the most expensive purchase you will ever make. It’s only natural that you want to thoroughly inspect any home you are considering. Some states require the seller to disclose information about the condition of the house and any potential hazards to the house from fire, flood, earthquake or the environment.

Regardless of this, you should have the home inspected by a professional.

After your written purchase offer has been accepted by the seller, it is the time to bring in a professional. Make sure you have made your offer contingent on your approval of the results of the inspection. If there are no problems with the house, you can proceed with the purchase.

If there are problems, say with the electrical or the plumbing, you can negotiate with the seller to fix the problems or back out of the sale, as long as you have it written in the contract that you can do so. How do you go about finding a reliable inspector? Here are some tips.

Even if you have inspected the home yourself, hire a professional. A professional inspector will do a through visual check of the home’s interior and exterior. They will check the heating system, the plumbing, the insulation, the electrical system, the foundation, the roofing, the downspouts and the chimney. They can also identify areas that have previously been repaired. You can expect to pay anywhere from $200 to $500 for two to five hours of work depending on the location, type, size and age of the house. Be sure to accompany the inspector, so you can find out what the major and the minor problems are.

When hiring someone, the best place to start is by asking friends and family for referrals.

If you ask your real estate agent for a referral, be careful. If they really want to make a sale, they may recommend someone who is not so thorough. You might consider asking a real

estate agent not associated with the sale of your home whom they would recommend to do an inspection. Check with the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) Web site, www.ashi. com, for a local referral. To become a member of the ASHI, inspectors must pass technical exams, meet specific standards of practice and are not allowed to do contracting work as a condition of membership.

Don’t go with the first inspector you talk to.

Get two or three bids and references from each inspector you are considering. Check out the references and the status of each individual’s license. Find out if any complaints have been lodged against the individual from licensing agencies and the state consumer protection agency.

After you have hired the inspector and they have made their inspection, you should receive a written report that reviews every major component and system in the home within 24 hours. The review will include the heating system, the electrical system, the plumbing, the central air conditioning system, the roof, the attic, the floors, the windows, the doors, the foundation, the basement, the ceilings, the walls, the landscaping, the visual insulation and the visible structure.

While the inspection covers quite a bit, it does not cover everything. An inspection can identify the need for a repair but not the cause. Inspectors are not required to report the presence of rodents or other pests. They are not required to inspect the phone or yard sprinkler systems. Inspections may not include a freestanding range/oven. Pools and spas may not be included in the home inspectionan additional fee may be required for the inspection of these. An inspector is not required to move heavy furniture to gain access to an area. It should be noted on the report that access was not available.

A home inspection is not the same as a building code inspection. A home built prior to code revisions is not required to comply with the code for homes built today. A home inspector’s first concerns are for safety, not code. Getting a home inspected is not the same as getting an appraisal for the home’s value either. It is not up to the inspector to tell you to buy the home or what you should pay for it. A home inspection is also not a guarantee that something will not go wrong in the future.

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“WHAT?” • Supposedly, when Captain Cook discovered Australia, his sailors brought an unknown animal aboard ship. Cook had the sailors go ashore and ask the natives what they called the strange creature. When questioned, the natives replied, “kangaroo, kangaroo” which meant in their language, “What did you say?”

• Yucatan, a peninsula in Mexico, means “What?” as in “What are you saying?” which is what the Mexican natives said when the Spanish conquistadors first landed on their shores and asked, “What do you call this place?” in a foreign language.

CONTRACTIONS • The word “napron” became “an apron” and “nauger” became “an auger”; and “an ekename” meaning “an additional name” became “a nickname.” Likewise names also transformed, with “mine Edward” being shortened to Ned; “mine Ellen” becoming Nell, and “mine Ann” becoming Nan. • “Buttonhole” was originally “buttonhold.”

“Sparrow-grass” became “asparagus.” “Shamefaced” evolved from “shamefast” as in “stuck fast.” “Kitty corner” or “catty corner” was once “catercorner” from the French word “quartre” meaning “four” as in four corners in a room.

WEIRD WORDS • The word “ruthless” once had a companion word “ruth” meaning compassion. We have “inept” and “disheveled” and “incorrigible” and “unkempt” but we do not have “ept” or “sheveled” or “corrigible” or “kempt.” Can you ever have a kit without a caboodle, a beck without a call, a cranny without a nook, or a spic without a span? Where are all the guilty bystanders and the normal bedfellows? Why are all swoops fell? Where are all the people who are combobulated, gruntled, chalant, ruly, gainly, or peccable? Why can’t you find just one smithereen?

PHOTO CREDIT: Photo cou tesy of Pace Foods I love watching football games with family and friends, and the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 5, is the perfect time to gather together. According to the NFL, the Super Bowl is the most popular “at home” party event of the year, surpassing even New Year’s Eve. All the cheering, jeering and excitement create a hearty appetite. These Southwestern-style mini appetizers will satisfy the biggest football fans without taking the host or hostess away from the game. Keep the buffet dishes warm in a crockpot or in an electric skillet set on low.

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4 ounces shredded Mexican cheese blend (about 1 cup) Sour cream (optional) Sliced pitted ripe olive (optional) 1. Heat oven to 425 F. Press the wonton or eggroll wrappers into 24 (1 1/2-inch) mini muffinpan cups.

2. Cook the beef in a 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat until well browned, stirring often to break up the meat. Pour off any fat. Stir in taco seasoning mix and picante sauce.

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CREAMY SALSA DIP 1 jar (16 ounces) Pace Chunky Salsa 1 container (8 ounces) sour cream 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon black pepper Assorted cut-up fresh vegetables and/or tortilla chips In a small bowl, stir salsa, sour cream, salt and black pepper. Cover bowl and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

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4 eggs 1/2 cup Pace Picante Sauce 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 2 teaspoons chili powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon black pepper 6 ounces shredded Cheddar cheese (about 1 1/2 cups) 1 green onion, chopped (about 2 tablespoons) 1. Heat oven to 400 F. Lightly grease 24 (3inch) muffin-pan cups.

2. Beat eggs, picante sauce, flour, chili powder, salt and pepper in a medium bowl with fork or whisk. Stir in cheese and onion.

3. Spoon about 1 tablespoon cheese mixture into each muffin-pan cup. Bake 10 minutes or until bites are golden brown. Serve warm or at room temperature with additional picante sauce.

Serves 24. *** Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning children’s author, culinary historian and the author of seven cookbooks. Her new cookbook is “The Kitchen Diva’s Diabetic Cookbook.”

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IN NEXT WEEKS ISSUE LOOK FOR $ SAVING IDEAS FROM LOCAL MERCHANTS. VALENTINES DAY GIFTS FOR THAT SPECIAL SOMEONE! SALSA VERDE MEATBALLS 2 1/2 cups (20 ounces) salsa verde 3 pounds ground beef 1 package (1.25 ounces) taco seasoning mix 2 eggs 1 1/2 cups finely crushed tortilla chips 8 green onions, minced (about 1 cup) 1. Heat oven to 350 F. 2. Thoroughly mix 1 1/2 cups of the salsa, the ground beef, taco seasoning mix, egg, tortilla chips and green onions in a large bowl. Shape mixture firmly into 32 meatballs.

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GYMPIE GYMPIE • In rainforests of Australia and Indonesia, there’s an innocent-looking shrub with heartshaped leaves, dubbed with the Aboriginal name of the “gympie gypmie tree.” Don’t let its innocent looks and humorous name fool you; it’s also known as “the suicide tree.”

• The phrase “gympie gympie” means “stinging tree” and that’s what this horrifying plant does: it stings. The large green leaves, the stems, the berries, and the trunks are completely covered with a hair-like fuzz. Under the microscope, it becomes clear that this “fuzz” is actually composed of tiny hollow silica-tipped hypodermic needles. The merest brush against any part of the plant results in agonizing pain when the needles embed themselves into flesh and deliver a potent neurotoxin called moroidin.

The needles are even able to penetrate rubber gloves.

• The pain is excruciating and large weeping welts soon form. An Australian man named Ernie Rider, who was slapped in the face and torso with the plant in 1963, described his experience: “For two or three days the pain was almost unbearable; I couldn’t work or sleep, then it was pretty bad pain for another night or so. The stinging persisted for two years and recurred every time I had a cold shower... There’s nothing to rival it; it’s ten times worse than anything else.”

• The treatments include immediately washing the exposed skin with diluted hydrochloric acid, then using hair-removal waxing strips to peel the tiny hairs away from the skin. If hair removal strips and hydrochloric acid are not available, plastering the skin with any adhesive tape and then ripping it off will help in a pinch. The pain of tearing hair follicles off the skin pales in comparison to the pain caused by the poison. (continued next page)

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GYMPIE GYMPIE (cont’d) • If the unfortunate victim tries to wash away the sting, the tiny hair-like needles of the gympie gympie plant will remain embedded in the skin, and the resulting pain will persist for years. The best thing to do after encountering the plant is to avoid touching the affected skin and proceed to a medical facility for treatment.

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• In fact, even standing near a gympie gympie plant can be dangerous, because the wind releases small dried needles into the air, and these can cause distressing symptoms when inhaled including nosebleeds, itching, rashes, sneezing, and asthma-like difficulties in breathing.

• The shrub produces clusters of rich red, purple, or pink berries similar to raspberries or mulberries, and these berries are edible if the hairs are removed from them first. A number of bird species and even some marsupials seem to be impervious to the poison, eating both the leaves and the berries, and thereby spreading the seeds.

• The plant prefers to grow in disturbed areas such as logged areas or places disrupted by storms or floods. It grows in sunny calm areas and is often found along streambanks, hiking trails, and roadways.

• “Being stung is the worst kind of pain you can imagine – like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time,” said researcher Marina Hurley. Pity the poor army officer who ended up committing suicide to escape the intolerable pain after mistakenly using a gympie gympie leaf as toilet paper.

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PINK LEMONADE • Acrobat Peter Conklin was running the concessions for Mabie’s Mighty Circus in the south in 1857. One afternoon was so hot that they ran out of the primary ingredient in lemonade: water. Peter reportedly ran over to the tent of the trick bareback rider Fannie Jamieson. She had been soaking her red tights and red sequined outfit in a tub of water. The water was colored red from the dye. “Red dye never hurt anybody,” Peter said, and commandeered the tub of pink water over her protests. The resulting lemonade was hawked as the world’s only guaranteed pink lemonade, and it sold so well that Conklin colored his lemonade pink from then on. He called it strawberry lemonade. Now days pink lemonade is usually made by adding grape juice.

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POPCORN • Humans have enjoyed eating popcorn since ancientTHE times.

Throughout there have “X” FACTORhistory (continued): been a variety of different ways to pop the • Do you suffer from xeroderma? If you have popcorn ranging from pots this buried in applies coals abnormal dryness ofclay the skin, term to to wire baskets held above flames. But in 1885 you! in Chicago, Charlie Cretors invented a better • From the 16th to the 19th centuries, pirates on popcorn popper. Merchants often had popcorn the Mediterranean Sea sailed a small threestands located in front of their business to draw masted vessel with square and triangular sails customers, but they were that enabled them to not sailmobile. faster Charlie than their prospective victims.

Depending on the sizetoof wanted to be able to take his popcorn popper the ship, known as a xebec, between 16 and 40 where ever there was a crowd gathered: fairs, guns might be mounted vessel. a theaters, picnics, beaches. on So the he invented • The word xenia a be variety meanings. portable popper that has could eitherof pushed by To the ancient Greeks, it was the concept foot, pulled by horse, or mounted on a truck. of hospitality, generosity, shown Today the Cretors Companyand stillcourtesy manufactures to those far from home. To the botanist, it’s mobile popcorn poppers other concessions. the effect of pollen on and a seed.

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SALT WATER TAFFY • Xystus is an architectural term, referring to • Ina 1880, David Bradley a candy storeof long, covered portico,opened or main entrance, ancient Greek gymnasiums.

Here, athletes on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City. He sold would inclement weather. many kindsexercise of candy,during including ever-popular To the Romans, the xystus was the garden taffy. The shop was located just two feet above walkway in front of the porticoes, where they sea level, and one night in 1883 the high tide planted flower beds. pushed by a storm soaked his inventory. The • Physicians are familiar with two unusual “X” next morning he was cleaning up the mess words, xyster and xiphisterna. The xyster is a when a young girl cameused intofor the scraping shop and bones, asked surgical instrument to while buy some taffy. “You refers mean salt water taffy?”at the xiphisterna to the cartilage he the lower end of the body’s sternum, that long joked. He gave her some of the taffy, and she went back to the beach boasting about her salt flat bone located at the center of the chest. water taffy to all her friends. Bradley’s mother • The Greek word xanthos translates “yellow,” happened to overhear exchange she enand several of our the words use it and for a prefix.

Xanthophyll a yellow on pigment foundtoalong couraged him toiscapitalize it, in order set with cholorophyll in green plants.

Plants his taffy apart from all the other taffy sold on yellow He stems are and xanthopous.

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