Monday, July 23rd, 2007
The Five Grammatical Errors That Make You Look Dumb outlined by blogger Brian Clark are indeed the five errors I most commonly see when reading blogs. In the first part of my Diary of a Storyteller, I detailed my amazement at the way the Internet allows people to establish ...
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Saturday, July 14th, 2007
In Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, Humpty Dumpty and Alice discuss the poem, ‘Jabberwocky’. The egg explains the word “slithy”:
“Well, ‘slithy‘ means ‘lithe and slimy.’ ‘Lithe’ is the same as ‘active.’ You see it’s like a portmanteau - there are two meanings packed up into one ...
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