8. If your uncle spent a lot of time on the BRIDEWELL he was likely the black sheep of the family. This is a generic term for jail that comes from the 16th-century prison near St. Bride Church in London. The City of Chicago called its house of detention a bridewell for more than a century beginning as early as the 1850s. Well, I never heard of it.
9. When a leader assigns competent underlings to a minor task to get them out of the way, the leader has STELLENBOSCHED them. The word comes from the Second Boer War , when the British sent unproven officers to the South African town of Stellenbosch to mind the horses and handle any other chore as long as they were away from the front lines. My wife likes to Stellenbosch me.
10. And finally, the word LABEORPHILLST.
So, Now That Mark and Stephan Have So Improved Our Vocab. Bring On Those GREs. --Cooter
In case you're wondering, a LABEOPHILLST collects beer bottle labels. I've tried, but they keep pulling apart.
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