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May 21, 2021 World Building / Writing

World Development – 17 topics to brainstorm

Spending time looking at maps this month, makes me delve into world building and development. How do you build a

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May 6, 2021 Did You Know ? / Language / Words

Spoonerisms

A “spoonerism” is a slip of the tongue where the speaker inadvertently swaps the consonants or vowels in a phrase.

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May 1, 2021 2021 A to Z Challenge

2021 A to Z: Surprise Bonus Content – Pangrams

Editor Note: hope you enjoyed the A to Z Blog Challenge. After spending all this time with the alphabet, I

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September 25, 2018 Did You Know ? / From The Editor's Desk / Language / Words

Language: Alumnus, Alumni, Alumna, and Alumnae

Today’s Lunchbox Lesson: ALUMNUS, ALUMNI, ALUMNA, and ALUMNAE These words all describe attending or graduating from a particular school, but

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May 26, 2018 Language / Ted Talks

TED talks: Does Language Shape the Way We Think?

There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world — and they all have different sounds, vocabularies and structures. But

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October 12, 2017 Editor Notes / Language / Word Wednesday / Words

Thursday Word of the Day: Lemma

lemma [lem-uh] noun In morphology and lexicography, a lemma (plural lemmas or lemmata) is the canonical form, dictionary form, or

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May 18, 2016 Language / Word Wednesday / Writing

Word Wednesday: Words Spied

acroname n. A name that is the acronym of a longer name. [Deseret News] ambidisastrous adj. Equally ruinous or calamitous in two ways or

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April 27, 2016 From The Editor's Desk / Language / Word Wednesday

Guinness World Records Words

Guinness World Records Words   Note From the Editor’s Desk: I enjoyed researching this so much that I decided to give

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March 8, 2015 In the News

Language and Grammar in the News… Week of March 8, 2015

I’m trying something new and different for the blog.  I’ve been fascinated by some stories that are coming through the

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