I like this week's theme: word possessing (seemingly) opposite meanings.
I have a dispute with today's choice, continuance.

The second definition (An adjournment of a court proceeding to a future day), although on the surface appears to be a contradiction, actually means "an agreement by all to continue on another day". So it is not really in opposition.

I agree 100%! You beat me to it!

Brings to mind buckle which means both to fall apart and come together.

Yes, that's a nice one. I agree with Anu over 'continuance' though . . . this usage means discontinuing before continuing. Similarly, I have to think twice about dates being 'brought forward' -- time progresses onward but meetings are brought (back, as I see it) in order to happen earlier.

I once started a list of phrases that mean the opposite of their literal sense. Things like "I don't want to interrupt/contradict/disappoint you" and "What you mean to say is . . . " and "This won't take a minute".

Any more?

Side with ParkinT and 2sleepy.
I though this morning that this word wasn't altogether . . tja. I was thinking it could mean a sort of a status quo of whatever is going on, be it active or passive. So, this word seemed to me to have only one and the same meaning.

Ooh, ooh--I just got around to reading yesterday's Word: the author quoted is a Kentuckian, quite famous around these parts.

Wendell Berry read it, interesting.

[What I stand for is what I stand on.]
To be able to stand for what you stand on depends on what you stand on. (It sounds like a privilege to be able to say that, I mean)

Wendell Berry is a gift.

Definitely sounds all good, but when will I have time to read all the books I still want to read? And listen to music, which I can't do both at the same time.

Yeah, you can have music on while you read (I have Sicut Servus on YouTube right now), but you can't listen to it.

Hmm, that got me thinking... who are the most famous Kentuckians of all time? (Are there any?)

let's see what Jackie makes of *this Wikipedia entry: List_of_Louisvillians

I know how to say "Louisville", slugger.

... who are the most famous Kentuckians of all time?

Abroad, I'm sad to say it, only the chickens made the grade.

(so far)

>the chickens

I say, so ya think Foghorn Leghorn hails from Louisville?

only the chickens made the grade. Ohh, ha ha HA!

I wouldn't say all the people on that Wikipedia list are Louisvillians; for ex., John James Audubon Ornithologist, naturalist and painter. Lived in Louisville for about two years. (e.a.)

I would say Daniel Boone, Abraham Lincoln, Muhammad Ali (now, he is a native Louisvillian), Tom Cruise (I'm not sure he was born here, but he went to high school and still has family here, the Mapothers), Rosemary Clooney and her nephew George, and no doubt the most famous face of all, Col. Harland Sanders. There are lots of lesser-known but still widely recognized names on that list. And here's one that includes the whole state--MANY well-known names:
Kentuckians

I noted that 'the Colonel' is listed under Military and Social figures. Was he a real Colonel? He is certainly a favourite social figure down here.

I allus assoomed tha' he were frum Rhode Island...

Whoa--tsuwm, I only just now saw your post, and that was because Pookie quoted it. You must have snuck it in while I was composing. My husband says his least-respectable uncle was exactly like Foghorn Leghorn, so no, I don't think I'll claim him--boy.

I'm sure this post wasn't there yesterday. How did you fit that one in? Foggy business....
Ah, and they don't come in that pretty, they come in little cardboard boxes.

Jackie:
In my next life I'm going to build a raft and and float down the Mississippi River form Lake Itasca to Lake Pontchartrain and down to the Antilles. When I'll pass the little stretch of the Kentucky banks I'll pay my repect to you and Audubon. Maybe a sidestep to Alabama to see what moon Brecht-Weil were thinking of. Oh, and Oklahoma for sure.

...where the wind blows...

Exactly what I've always liked about Oklahoma. (Not to mention that bright golden haze on the meadow.)

and the herds of elephants that hang around corn fields.

Eye-catching answer !