Weathered Words Environmental Chemistry or a festive and heartwarming

or a festive and heartwarming holiday read aloud for ages 0-3

From codes and brainteasers to word riddles to language puzzles

Except Ramona's falling in love with Tom

National-security reporter Spencer Ackerman

Weathered Words Environmental Chemistry or a festive and heartwarmingFormulaic phraseology presents the epitome of words worn and weathered by trial and the tests of time. Scholarship on weathered words is exceptionally diverse and interdisciplinary. This volume focuses on verbal art, which makes Oral Formulaic Theory (OFT) a major point of reference. Yet weathered words are but a part of OFT, and OFT is only a part of scholarship on weathered words. Each of the eighteen essays gathered here brings particular aspects