Chrysti The Wordsmith: Connect the Dots

Greetings I'm Christie the wordsmith. Connect the dots is a classic paper and pencil children's game in an exercise that's part art project and part counting lesson the player draws a line between a sequence of numbered dots and as they are connected in order a hidden pattern emerges on the page. The game was featured in early 20th century American newspapers like The Charleston West Virginia mail which offers instructions in its November 23rd 1915 issue to solve the great mystery. Join the dots with a pencil line it read. Begin with DOT number one and take them in numerical order. The name of this paper game was given a fresh identity in the 1980s when journalists and other writers turned it into a verb phrase to connect the dots. Suddenly meant to make logical links between concepts until the Hidden Picture is revealed. According to The New York Times archives this new metaphor appeared for the first time in that publication in 1905 and a tribute to former

Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black. The journalist said that in assessing Black's personal history scholars quote sought to connect the dots that made up the man's life. The phrase increased in frequency throughout the 1990s and is now a well-established metaphor for the notion of drawing logical conclusions from associating one idea with another. I'm Christie the wordsmith but Dave herbivores Christie the wordsmith is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry Web dot com.