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Wednesday, July 03, 2024

that's the thing. we're having so much fun.. and,

don't let it be the first word or selling point, but.. it's educational too. we're growing our vocabularies

it reminds me of good tasting vegetables, you know..

don't use healthy as the lead in; or 'good for you' as the selling point

just say, 'tastes good! delicious!'

so, during our recent family visit, when i showed this to my kids, they were both like..

plage.. how did you even know that's a word? it's not plague..

i know,

i didn't know it was word. i never used it before. i was just plugging it in and it accepted it, and i was surprised and delighted..

and it helped me make my next guess..

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and, i never did look it up.. or try to learn more, i just used it to help me solve the game.

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but once my kids asked about it, i went ahead and looked it up..

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pronounced it wrong at first; as is my nature it appears

but,

plage. not with a long A plAge.. not pronounced like page with an L in it; much more fancy and sophisticated, like ah, A, plaazh...

and guess what it means..

fits in with what we all just experienced together in carmel

noun

i repeated it out loud

a beach! by the sea.. near a fashionable resort...

and then i

double-dared them to drop it in a conversation in the upcoming weeks and see what happens..

"yes, mm hmmm, we spent the day at a plage....

"drove to a dog-friendly plage in carmel..

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no one was over familiar with 'adage' either.

i knew it was a word.. and guessed at the meaning

i think it's like, an old saying.... an old adage...

so, good-guessing points for me #wordnerds