UKASE

Directive, edict, injunction, fiat, order, rule, regulation, dictum, command
It comes from Russian, which language is used to issuing commands.  Putin is teaching Donald Trump a few new words.

UXBRIDGE

A small city in Southern Ontario, named after a small city in England which has been subsumed into the west end of London.  I wondered if spelling drift had allowed it to start out as an ox-bridge, or oxen-bridge.  Apparently it originally was Wixan’s bridge – Wixan being the name of a person who was skilled or adept in the practice of the religion of Wicca.  Wixan’s-bridge to Uxbridge is similar to the drift of Wotan to Odin.

UKULELE

The second-most irritating and useless musical instrument on Earth – right behind the bagpipes.  It drove me – and Spell Check – crazy, trying to get it up there.  Spell Check’s best guess was unkeeled.  Next option was Bekele, an Ethiopian long-distance runner, followed by tekele, a Finnish word indicating an example of poor workmanship.  AI is still a long time away from replacing me.

There you have it ladies and gentlemen – a second Smitty’s Loose Change this week, but all about words.  Word is, I have another Fibbing Friday ready to publish in a couple of days.  Don’t just lie around.  Stop in to read what I don’t show my therapist.