Tag Archives: Dictionaries

The New Leaf Journal sometimes studies dictionaries (usually, not always, older ones) to dig into the meaning of words and phrases.

ESPN States Tim Duncan was “Born Overseas”

Was an NBA player who was born in an overseas U.S. territory born “overseas” as the word is commonly understood?

“Respondent has come forth with a strange admixture of contentions.”

〜Descriptive words for root vegetables〜

〜The true story of the origin of “where the leaves are perennially virid”〜

“The trees leaf in May” (and so does The New Leaf Journal)