Author: Rev. Joe Dirt

Posted on

Word of the Day – Fungible

  •  Adjective:  Fungible
    1. (of goods contracted for without an individual specimen being specified) able to replace or be replaced by another identical item; mutually interchangeable.
  • Synonyms:
    1. compatible
    2. synonymous
    3. changeable
    4. commutable
    5. exchangeable
    6. interconvertible
  • Usage:

“Energy is fungible. The more we save, the less we need to use.” ~~  from the book referenced below

  • Encountered:

While reading The Little Blue Book by George Lakoff and Elisabeth Wehling

To see more Words of the Day, visit this link: Words of the Day

Posted on

Quote for the Day — A Writing Quote Just for Jeanne

“Having burned my ship, I plunged into writing. I am afraid I always was an extremist. Early and late I was at it—writing, typing, studying grammar, studying writing and all the forms of writing, and studying the writers who succeeded in order to find out how they succeeded. I managed on five hours’ sleep in the twenty-four, and came pretty close to working the nineteen waking hours left to me. My light burned till two and three in the morning, which led a good neighbour woman into a bit of sentimental Sherlock-Holmes deduction. Never seeing me in the day-time, she concluded that I was a gambler, and that the light in my window was placed there by my mother to guide her erring son home.

The trouble with the beginner at the writing game is the long, dry spells, Continue reading “Quote for the Day — A Writing Quote Just for Jeanne”