ChycLit: We are family

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

We are family

We were invited to a fantastic barbecue at Dave & Ci’s yesterday evening: good food, great company. We feel very blessed to know the whole gang; in fact, we’ve come to think of them as extended family.

Speaking of relatives, my mom called last night to say that cousin Alicia & husband Rick and three older siblings welcomed a new baby boy, Noah, into their family. Cousin Tannis & husband Jeremy and the princesses welcomed prince Ezra into their lives on Aug 4.

It appears Biblical names are still in vogue for boys. Wonder if there’s any correlation to Wal-Mart’s new venture into Bible action figures? (See below.) I first caught the news via Yahoo!

(I don’t understand why the first article gives the toys’ measurements in millimetres; I mean why not centimetres or inches? How bizarre.)

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Chick lit [t∫Ik lIt] noun informal 1 literature, more accurately, “genre fiction,” primarily by, for, and about women, notorious for its “hip, stylish female protagonists, usually in their twenties and thirties, in urban settings” and its focus on “their love lives and struggles in business...The books usually feature an airy, irreverent tone...”[1] 2 pun on Chiclets, a candy-coated chewing gum.[1, 2] (chick ME abbrev. of chicken, Am. Slang for young woman; lit abbrev. of literature, from Latin litteratura) [1, 3, 4]

ChycLit [t∫IklIt] noun 1 var. of CHICK LIT 2 literature, more accurately, Chiclet-like blog entries in the life writing tradition (Chyc abbrev. of Ukr. Chychota, surname; lit abbrev. of literature, from Latin litteratura) [3, 4]

[1] “Chick lit,” Wikipedia
[2] The Victory Old-time Candy Store
[3] Gage Canadian Dictionary. Vancouver: Canada Publishing Corporation, 1997.
[4] Canadian Oxford Dictionary. 2nd ed. Don Mills, ON: Oxford UP, 2004.

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