Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Coining in the Past

Accused, Addiction, Assassination, Amazement, Bandit, Backing, Alligator, Anchovies, and Bedroom. All words used in Shakespeare's plays but what's special about them is that he actually coined those words. It's not known if he actually thought of those words himself but his plays were the first documented usage of them. William Shakespeare coined over 1,600 words, most of which we still use today. Rant or Rants, (also one of my popular blogs) was a word coined by William Shakespeare as well. There are many sites documenting every word he coined so feel free to go check them out if you want to

Anagram:
Q.) A Spadeworks Sheers
A.) Shakespeare's Words (Having the apostrophe was somewhat cheating though, Sorry)

Q.) Wot Sword
A.) Two Words

Haven't figured it out yet? How about this

Riddle:
Q.) What do a Shrew, a Dictator, A Dream, Twelve nights, and Two lovers have in common?
A.) All have been the subject of a Shakespearean Play.

Friday, February 17, 2012

Sloth

Sloth: One Seventh of the Deadly Sins... But also a lovable animal. Did you know it takes Sloths one week to digest their food? That means they only use the bathroom once a week! That beats my usual of twice a day. When I worked at the zoo, we had a sloth named Gage, I was told by the zoo keepers that his usual day of the week was late into Thursday, of course since I only worked Saturdays and Sundays I never actually had the chance to confirm this. Until one day, when I decided to visit the zoo off shift. It was a Thursday as chance had it, I met with my Senior Zoo Keeper and asked her if it was alright to show my parents around the animal house (Where we kept all of the animals in their simulated habitats.). She agreed and I went on in with my family. I noticed Gage was climbing down from his little plaster tree, using the cage to keep him steady, and I knew as soon as I saw him reach the floor that he had to "go". I didn't say anything to my family until we left, they didn't seem to care much, or they were disgusted by it.