Hee-hee!! Ahead of the curve in this group!!! Don't get too cocky!!! lol. Edna, actually, the English Oxford Dictionary regularly updates and changes both words and definitions, and occasionally removing archaic and unused words!! Check this out: Notes on OED's March 2009 release of new words bird-dogging n. This North American colloquialism is interesting in its own right, the work of a dog trained to retrieve birds for hunters finding figurative expression in the sense 'determined searching or pursuit' as early as 1933, but a side note adds extra fascination. The 1972 quotation in this entry seems to point to a possible explanation of the hitherto somewhat obscure origins of the name of DOGGING as an exhibitionist pastime. However, caution must be urged: the gaps in time and distance between this 1972 U.S. use and the first 1986 use in Britain of dogging argue that perhaps nothing more than coincidence is at work. achy-breaky adj. Inspired by the title of the 1992 hit "Achy Breaky Heart", written by Don von Tress, and performed by Billy Ray Cyrus (now perhaps more famous as the father of Miley Cyrus, TV's Hannah Montana), this adjective has found life after the pop charts in a variety of contexts, possibly aided in this by a capacity to prompt either extremely positive or extremely negative reactions in the people who hear it; not unlike the song itself. lifestyler n. The current release of revised material, which contains, among other things, human, social, community, life, and related words, has something of a focus on human society, the changes that it has gone through, and the reflection of these in the English language. This word, first appearing in 1970 (the word "lifestyle" itself dates back only as far as 1915), forms rather a nice microcosm of these themes with regard to the later 20th century. The quotations at the first sense reflect a selection of (often unconventional) lifestyles characteristic of the time, and the increasing familiarity of these to an audience broader than the actual participants. The second sense focuses on a specific social phenomenon, urbanites moving to the countryside in search of a (frequently somewhat idealized) simpler life. This is as familiar in Australia and New Zealand as anywhere, but only there have such people earned the epithet lifestyler. humanly adj. This last item, as well as being a good example of an old word which is new to the dictionary, is interesting precisely it appears not to have caught on at all. It's logically formed, its sense ("characteristic of human nature") is easy to divine intuitively, and its two obvious parallels in the language, manly and womanly, both went on to flourish in the language; in fact humanly owes its origins to a translation of the Dutch equivalent of the former. The reasons for its failure relative to these words perhaps lie in the ready availablity of human itself as an adjective by this time, denying a suffixed adjectival form the room it needed to grow. Graeme Diamond, Principal Editor, New Words, Oxford English Dictionary I know, I know, I am a word geek. Nancy.

Then I would say go with a tablet that is more portable and easily can travel with you. We only take our tablets now when we travel in the RV. We can do everything we need to do on the tablets. Plus there is no worry about it over heating or getting hot like a laptop they don't have those problems. For the price you are wanting to spend it will probably be in the 7" range, you can find a 10" on sale sometimes. If you want to go with straight Android not a branded one like Amazon then I would look at the Asus Transformer or one of the smaller Asus tablets. The Amazon Fire is good but it is a branded version of Android so it is more limited than a regular Android, The books would be of course for the Kindle and from Amazon. But you can add the kindle reader to any Android tablet. Plus with regular Android you can add other reader programs and read any format of book not just kindle books. I would not get anything below Android 4.1 as far as the operating system goes. You can find several of the unknown brands around for much cheaper, some are fine some use cheaper products in them. Another alternative altogether is a tablet that runs windows. For example this one by HP which is on for $299 today at Woot. It is a factory reconditioned which does not bother me, I have bought several tablets that were factory reconditioned with no problems. And it does come with a 1yr factory warranty. HP ElitePad 900 10.1" Tablet, Intel Atom Z2760 1.8GHz, 128GB SSD, 2GB RAM, 802.11n, Bluetooth, Win8Pro 32-bit Asus Tablets at this link you can see various of the Asus tablets from 7" to 10" brand new and refurbished. Products ******Now this right here is a really really good deal on this 10" LG G Pad which is a quad core running the latest version of Android. Plus there is a code there for $20 off. This might be the deal of the day.And it is from newegg a very good place to do business. It is brand new, it has some very unique features and it also has IPS display excellent! It is a very good entry level first tablet, not as powerful and full bodied as some of the others but those others will be in the $400-500 or more range. For $229 this is a nice first tablet. LG G Pad 10.1 Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GB Memory 16GB eMMC 10.1" Touchscreen Tablet Android 4.4 (KitKat) LG G Pad In that same size/price category is the Acer Iconia with some decent specs for an entry level also. Acer Iconia 10.1" Tablet 32GB Quad Core samsung is also a good brand in tablets(maybe out of the price range). Google nexus is good The main things you need to look for in the specs is the resolution it should be at least 1280 x 600 or so higher is better. The version of Android it is running 4.1 or higher. The Ram memory and storage space plus the ability to add an additional sd card. 1-2 GB of RAM or higher. Usually 16 GB is the internal storage and most take up to a 32GB sd card. just let me know if I can help with anything. That LG is a sweet deal. I would go for ASUS, Samsung, Google, or the LG or Acer Iconia all very decent brands and offer nice options.

Ii am going to post here so it wont add on to the new one with bingo and Preakness. I got my prettiest garden box from Margo. A wonderful hearty plant of Lavender Provence. a great addition to my garden. Then 2 darling solar butterflies. a bright pair of gardening gloves for those trimming jobs. I love this sweet package.

mtvhike, it was the only solution. My store is 85 miles round trip and in a county with much higher virus counts. The only reason to go in person (other than they limit the online choices to the very newest phone models) was to have them set it up. Since they wouldn't do it, having it delivered next day for free was a no brainer. I didn't contact a sales rep online to see if I could choose from an older model, because I don't need the fanciest phone/cameras that they are pushing online. So I just ordered the SE which still was plenty $. And I'm so happy that it's smaller. The size of the 6 is the bane of my existence. Well, my phone existence. They sent a packing box to return my old 6+ for a $45 credit. I had already made an in person appt before I discovered there was no tech help available. I tried to cancel it (I got a same day appt) but the link in the confirm email was invalid. I went to another place online to see "my appts" and it said I didn't have any appts. I hated not canceling it, so I emailed the general support and told them the problem. They wrote back they couldn't help, so I just missed the appt. I wrote them later and told them again the link was invalid...they had sent me a second reminder email with the same invalid link. I suggested they forward to the appropriate dept, so they'd be aware and fix it for others. They wrote back and said they couldn't do that with suggestions on who I could contact to report it. Umm, no thanks.