Dear Jackie: Tsuwm and I are talking about the last "Today's Word".


Dear tsuwm: My vision is not very good, but when a light is out, it is not invisible to me until it is over a hundred yards awy. I just feel that bit was not up to Wordsmith's standard.

I suppose you could say when the moon is out, we see its light. When a light bulb is out, we see no light from it. And our saying a light is "out" is a carry-over from days of candles and lamps. I think we now more often say a light is "off" referring to action of switch.