Ain't Nothin' Captious About That

    Cavil: cavilled, cavilling To quibble, trick; To raise captious and frivolous objections; To find fault without good reason; To oppose by finding trivial faults. Captious: captiously, captiousness Apt to ensnare or perplex especially in arguments; Apt to notice and make much of unimportant faults or defects. Reading the one, led to making sure …

Bole – Day 2 of My Alzheimer's Prevention Plan

Bole – the stem or trunk of a tree, or something cylindrical resembling a tree’s trunk, like a pillar or roll. The first usage of this word according to the OED was around 1314—e.g., ‘His neck is thicker than a bole.’ ‘The gnarled boles of pollard oaks and beeches.’ When writing historical fiction it’s always …