The Word Spy by Ursula Dubosarsky

Ever wondered what a Gloglup was? Or why a group of weasels was called a ‘boogle’? And did you know that, six or seven hundred years ago, when it snowed, people used to say that it ’snew’?

You can discover these and other extraordinary, funny, sometimes gross and always odd facts about words at Ursula Dubosarsky’s blog, The Word Spy. (http://wordsnoop.blogspot.com)

And if you have your own kooky questions on wordstuff you can email them to wordsnoop@gmail.com and Ursula may just answer you on her blog.

And why is there a special word for ‘thumb’ but not for ‘big toe’? Ursula suggests a ‘groog’. What do you think?

Tristan

www.tristanbancks.com

P.S. There’s also The Word Spy book over at www.ursuladubosarsky.com

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