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Foreign words can be difficult to pronounce. Words that we’ve never seen before are also hard to say correctly, such as ‘”reconnaissance” was for eight-year old me. Sure, we could say, “That word is hard […]
Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary is as pleased to provide another installment, a new pair of words! The struggle is real. We’ve all had it happen to us. The bruises we sport testify to our ongoing […]
Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary is as pleased to give helpful pronunciation guide to its awesome words. We’ve all had the following happen to us. The struggle is real. We’ve all had it happen to us. […]
Sometimes words come about gradually. You hear them for a while before noticing and adopting them into your vocabularly. Sometimes your work or studies require you to coin a new word so as to avoid […]
When I can’t sleep, or if I get bored while driving, sometimes I’ll amuse myself by making up words. If getting older means I’m going to start forgetting words—or at least have trouble retrieving them […]
I can’t exactly say that I’d like to go back and relive the era of the 60’s. Then again, right now I’m experiencing a different kind of 60’s, the one with Medicare in the middle, […]
This is part II of my interview with Ruth Weisberg. This week, she talked about narration, voice over work and her love for “painting with words.” Learned a lot from her as always and she […]
Haiku to Heteroskedasticity Some words are quite long Heteroskedasticity Is one of those those.* * = “Those those” because the last line needs five syllables. Haikus aren’t easy to write either. – Paul R. De […]
Writers are weird. I didn’t know just how weird until I became one. From being an opera singer for several decades, I already had a head start on being weird. That was a big help […]
SLIGHTLY OFF THE MARK It wouldn’t be another year if we didn’t come across lists of new words, something I discussed when the year was new. But what about old words? Now I’ve also […]