Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary: Today’s Word – Porphin

Endorphins are peptides produced in the brain that block the perception of pain and increase feelings of wellbeing. Life can be hard. People can be let us down and be downright mean to us. Illnesses […]

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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary: Today’s Word – Biobe

There are so many tiny things in the world! How are we expected to know what they’re called? And single-cell organisms, why they’re are billion types of them. We can’t possible know and remember their […]

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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary: Today’s Word – Snof

We’ve all done this. We’ve spent hours on the computer playing solitaire, posting 62 times on Facebook(tm), or solving the day’s Wordle(tm) puzzle. Finally virtue and common sense rear their beautiful heads. We turn off […]

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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary: Today’s Word – Pqfkqpltw

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 […]

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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary: Today’s Phrase – Etch a Sketch Memory

How many times has this happened to you? You committed something to memory because it was important. Just moments later, it’s forgotten. A painstakingly created mental portrait gone like that. What shook loose that memory […]

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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary: Today’s Word: Bempo

How many times has this happened to you? You wake up tired. Really, really tired. Too tired to change out of pajamas. But it’s important to look spiffy when you go out into the world. […]

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Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary – Today’s Word – Tempid

We are all brilliant, every last one of us. We have scintillating ideas all the time. So, why aren’t we given more credit for our intelligence? Why hasn’t the world been turned into a paradise? […]

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Misheard Lyrics of KC and the Sunshine Band

The heart-pumping lyrics of “Boogie Shoes” by KC and the Sunshine Band turns us all into dancing fiends, ready to dominate the disco floor. The song alone is an aerobic exercise. The repetitive lyrics are […]

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