Posts Tagged ‘words’
I would never have guessed it….
From the New Yorker (via The Shortlist Daily) – this story ” Last Friday, we débuted “Questioningly,” a Twitter-based game show. In the first installment, we asked readers to propose a single English word that should be eliminated from the language”. And the winner….. Read more http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/04/questioningly-words-marked-for-death.html#ixzz1swE1CBtG Not a word that bothers me altho very […]
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Handwriting
From Con, a handwriting meme. Trouble is, I haven’t been to my blog for quite a while and what with the rain, I started reading old posts and feeling quite sad. And I realise that I hardly ever handwrite nice words these days – apart from shopping lists and notes to the children (these are […]
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Ahoj!
This is word I should just use more. Ahoj, pronounced ‘ahoy’ is Czech for hello or hi, but it’s informal so you can also use it for bye… I like the word because it’s short and happy and joyous. Max’ parents have been over for the last few months and I just spent the last day […]
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A scattering
These days I graze. Not food so much but words. I used to just read, read books, the paper, but these days I graze all over the place and it’s nearly all online. I read the SMH online in the mornings over breakfast on my work iPad – when will the SMH charge for the […]
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An epiphany of sorts
Etymology: < Greek ἐπιϕάνεια manifestation, striking appearance, esp.… Lunch today I was in one of my favourite places – Q Hair – getting my hair cut and coloured. Reading the magazines while I waited for the whole hair colour thing to develop. Reading about how women – well the successful ones – constantly “reinvent” tthemselves… […]
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