Courtney Tobin

I love ancient languages like Greek and Latin, but modern ones are pretty interesting, too! So working with the written word every day and helping Verblio customers get the content they need is really enjoyable. If I’m not reading Homer or Horace, I’m usually figuring out how everything at Verblio can be even more awesome.

WOOF Compendium, or: Verbum Diei de Dictionario Diei (the VDDD)!

By Courtney Tobin / December 6, 2013

Welcome to your weekly WOOF Roundup. Here, you’ll find all the Words of the day from the dictionaries of the day, which you may have missed.

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WOOF Round-Up: Have a Bear-y Good Weekend!

By Courtney Tobin / November 29, 2013

It’s Friday, and if you were too busy cooking up some turkey (or Tofurkey) to catch all of our WOrds of the day from the dictionaries OF the day (WOOFs,…

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Two-Week WOOF RoundUp: Are Stick-Figure Drawings Creepy?

By Courtney Tobin / November 22, 2013

In case you’re anguishing over missing a word this week, here is your weekly compendium of the WOrds of the day of the dictionaries OF the day. It’s a double…

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“WOOF (There it is!)”

By Courtney Tobin / November 8, 2013

Monday: Comin’ through the rye, adapted by Burns, 1782 (1970 Dictionary of World Poetry) — Gin a body meet a body / Comin’ through the rye / Gin a body…

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Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious WOOFs: “If you say it loud enough you’ll always sound precocious!”

By Courtney Tobin / October 18, 2013

What would your work week be without your hebdomadal (consider that one your bonus word of the day! From the Latin hebdomadalis, weekly, which comes from the Greek ἑπτά (hepta),…

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Encyclopedia! A WOOF Digest

By Courtney Tobin / October 11, 2013

What a WOOFtastic week! Here’s your digest of all the words of the day this week:

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