This week's theme: professions of the past. bowyer (BO-yuhr) noun
One who makes, sells, or uses bows. [From Old English boga, ultimately from the Indo-European root bheug- (to bend) that is also the source of bagel, buxom, and bog.] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "In the future I plan on taking my fondness of traditional archery to another level by having a professional bowyer fashion a hand-made bow especially for my specific wants and build." Geordon T. Howell; The Art of the Archer; Daily News (Bowling Green, Kentucky); Feb 24, 2007. This newsletter is made possible in part by these sponsors: Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?ad=aw&code=mx0 It only takes three words to save polar bears: "Threatened Species Listing" Sign your name to the Citizen Comments at http://PolarBearSOS.org by April 9. And readers like you. Thank you! ............................................................................ Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956) Looking for word/quotation archives: http://wordsmith.org/awad/archives.html Unsubscribe, change address, etc: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/bowyer.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/bowyer.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/bowyer.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
