Kathleen Curry

In honor of naturalist John James Audubon’s birthday today. Here is a list of bird species names that also have other meanings. Grouse: A grouse is a ground dwelling bird. Grouse as a verb means to complain or gripe about one’s problems. Snipe: A snipe is a bird with a long straight bill, round body, and long legs. It inhabits marshlands or coastlines. At beaches it eats insects, snails, tiny crabs, fish eggs, and tiny fish. In the marsh it eats insects and small fish.

In years past, you might have expected to see a City Weekly Summer Guide issue sometime in May. Of course, years past were different because, well... [gestures broadly at everything]. As recently as late spring, it wasn't entirely clear if Summer 2021 would be a depressing instant replay of Summer 2020.

kathleenwcurry in Easily Confused Words January 11, 2017January 11, 2017 280 Words Windchill and windshield are easily confused words. The spell-check application of most word processing software programs would not catch a slip-up of these two words. Spell-check is looking for words that aren’t in its dictionary, and words that resemble words in its dictionary, but are possibly spelled wrong. Spell-check isn’t perfect.