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I have this Moleskine address book, which I received as a gift about a year ago. The trouble is that my addresses, or "contacts" are one thing that I prefer to keep electronically.

So I was looking at the alphabetized tabs on the pages, and wondering what else I could do with it. Well, while I'm not actually making a continual effort to increase my vocabulary, I do like to make a note when I run across a new word, particularly one that interests me. Trouble is, those notes can get buried inside my other notebooks.

So this has become my dictionary supplement. Just made my first entry under the Us. Another one of my entries tells me that this could be considered a "commonplace book", that is, a personal notebook with reference material interesting to the owner. Other entries include concinnity, fipple, infandous, and talpine. But I do my best not to show ultracrepidarian tendencies in my posts.:001_rolle
 

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May I offer my heartiest contrafibularities.

 
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I taught my general music kids the pieces and parts of an Irish whistle. The term "fipple" resulted in lots of middle school laughter. The best bit came later in the day when I heard one of my students got the opportunity to solve his inappropriate language problem with the vice-principal. She knew what a fipple was and sent the kid back to the sending teacher with instructions to demonstrate the proper care and maintenance of a whistle's fipple.
 
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