Central North Carolina Planting Calendar for Annual Vegetables, Fruits, and Herbs. Central North Carolina is a wonderful place to garden. Almost any type of vegetable or fruit can be grown successfully provided you choose appropriate varieties and plant at the right time.
There are fewer nouns than adjectives for someone who is smart, intelligent, bright, brilliant, or wise. Some terms are genius, ace, intellect (intellectual), savant, academicâ¦, or scholar. Colloquial terms include brain, egghead, Einstein, thinker, or whiz.
Today, most of the time someone or something is described as dumb when it shows a lack of thought, like your dumb idea of wearing flip-flops in a snowstorm. Dumb is the Old English word that means mute, speechless, and itself came from an even older word dheubh meaning confusion, stupefaction, dizziness.. Today, dumb still means unable to speak, but it doesn't have anything to do with intelligence. Its other meaning, however, does.