A Word by Any Definition: If Your Knees Crumble, Call 9-1-1 Pronto

I'm starting a new blog category today. See it over there in the category list? That means I plan to return to this subject in the future. Words are serious stuff, folks. Well, to writers, and lawyers and anyone trying to split hairs in an argument, they are. I am a writer. I am like a perpetually lovesick single, always looking for just the right word and unhappy if I am stuck with the wrong word.

In fifth grade, a teacher asked a group of us how we thought a certain word we had never heard o...