My mother uses curlers in her hair. My brother-in-law is a devoted curler.
On January 1, 2000, the public may witness computer glitches.

Do you know what these writers are talking about? Writers want to communicate and readers want to know. It is important for an individual who will be both reader and writer in life to develop an extensive vocabulary.

Part of a teachers and a writers maturing is having the vocabulary to express thought with greater clarity and unmistakable meaning.

Here are the sections on this site dealing with vocabulary development:

• Fallacies of Logic
• Rhetoric
• Thinking and Writing with Logic
• Succintness of Expression
• Glossary of Comedy
• Stylus and Hot Lead

Just in case you are curious. Here is a little information on curling and glitches.

CURLING, the GAME
Dutch master Pieter Bruegel in Hunters in the Snow depicts peasants curling with broomsticks in the background of a hunt scene. Scottish curling clubs existed in the 1700s. You'll have to check with the U.S. Curling Hall of Fame in Chicago, watch 1998 Olympic footage, read the February 1999 issue of Smithsonian magazine or go to www.usacurl.org (United States Curling Association) to learn more about the sport.

GLITCH
1. a minor mishap or technical problem,
2. a false or spurious electronic signal,
3. a sudden change in the period of rotation of a neutron star