David Astle (alias DA)
Crossword maker. Evenings host ABC Vic. Writer, and Wordplay columnist SMH & The Age. Verbaholic. My views only davidastle.com
- That awkward lag between the TV news host and a field reporter is called a TELECHASM
- Wordsworthy. Plathetic. Atwooden. The replies are just as good.
- Words that resemble what they mean - bed, boob, llama, zigzag, parallel - are called iconomatopoeia
- Commas are just apostrophes with a fear of heights
- What’s happened to my BlueSky scroll? Seems to be “infected” by images of pets and landscapes from accounts I don’t follow. Did I miss a memo?
- Words nursing their opposites L to R: there (here) friend (fiend) pest (pet) feast (fast) wonderful (woeful) thorough (rough) resign (reign) flight (fight) sunlit (unlit) covert (overt)
- capybarinas
- *pause for cute baby capybaras* #TimelineCleanse
- Moira knows it. The fans know it. Now is the time to lament the Vocabulary Queen. Vale Catherine O’Hara
- Hey word nerds, Nancy is a great follow
