Word of the Day
Keeping up with the developments of Carter Avenue and DISH, TX we missed Mr. Woodard's latest gem in the Fort Worth Business Press.
Thanks to one of our readers for pointing it out!
Eminent domain
In the 18th century a biographer named James Granger illustrated his Biographical History of England by inserting engravings or photographs collected from other books. He would mutilate and cannibalize other books to obtain material for his book. From his modus operandi comes the word “grangerize.”
If an eminent domain-mandated two-bit dime-sized billion dollar boondoggle Town Lake ever covers up the post card natural beauty of the picturesque Clear Fork-West Fork confluence, and children of the future ask their teacher, “Where is the confluence?,” it seems to me the proper tutorial reply would have to be: “It was grangerized.”
– Don Woodard, Fort Worth
Thanks to one of our readers for pointing it out!
Eminent domain
In the 18th century a biographer named James Granger illustrated his Biographical History of England by inserting engravings or photographs collected from other books. He would mutilate and cannibalize other books to obtain material for his book. From his modus operandi comes the word “grangerize.”
If an eminent domain-mandated two-bit dime-sized billion dollar boondoggle Town Lake ever covers up the post card natural beauty of the picturesque Clear Fork-West Fork confluence, and children of the future ask their teacher, “Where is the confluence?,” it seems to me the proper tutorial reply would have to be: “It was grangerized.”
– Don Woodard, Fort Worth
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