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August 8, 2009
- Here's another reason we love working at Red Room: Our jobs require reading the superb writing our community shares with us. Last Friday, for instance, one of the items on our collective to-do list here at Red Room HQ was "Read Red Room blog-topic-of-the-week entries." What a treat!We had asked the entire Red Room community to blog on one topic: "What are your obsessions? Your ...
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August 3, 2009
- A new German dictionary has acquired 5,000 new words and many of them are English. Around 5,000 new words have been officially added to the German language as the country's iconic dictionary, Duden, introduced its first new edition for three years. The new version contains 135,000 words, including many new words that an English-speaker would find familiar, several inspired by ...
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July 28, 2009
- Upload your manuscript and find out which words are working overtime in your book with Wordle. This visual word art representation of my book really emphasizes how prominent the body is in these poems. Wow.
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July 12, 2009
- STORYHEART SUNDAY UK BLOG - MORE OLD ENGLISH SAYINGS I have been asked to share some more old English Phrases and origins of them. So that will be today's blog.GOLFMany years ago in Scotland, a new game was invented. It was ruled “Gentlemen only… Ladies Forbidden” …and thus the word GOLF entered into the language.SAVED BY THE BELL/DEAD RINGEREngland is old and small and the local folks ...
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July 10, 2009
- The Americans did it with their phonetic spellings. India gobbled their burgers and even the Oxford-educated returned with American accents, forget those on a vacation rolling their tongues going khurrie while aching for a spicy curry. I am in no hurry, but Kolkata schools have decided that the Oxford English dictionary can go take a walk and S can comfortably be replaced with a Z. But, then, why ...
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July 8, 2009
- Author's Intro This is an intensely autobiographical, possibly even narcissistic piece. If anyone sticks with it and finds something universal in it, I'll be pleased. It was a pleasure to organize these threads of thinking and feeling about "the Good Life" that have been circulating in my being for nearly half a century. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WORDS Something’s a little strange:I ...
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July 1, 2009
- "it doesn't faze me" = 612,000 hits"it doesn't phase me" = 1,740,000 hitsSome of the latter are, no doubt, people explaining how to use the word "faze." But one appears to be a bona fide error by an AP writer that got past an AP editor then past a Charleston Daily mail editor.Either way, I'm shocked that the "phase" version occurs almost three times as ...
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June 24, 2009
June 22, 2009
- The house feels huge, spacious at this hour of the morning. With everyone still in a slumber, there is an order to the place that somehow gets lost as the day progresses. Kind of like my mind really. It starts off with a clear definition of how I want the day to go, how much time I will devote to my writing, how I will plant this and cook this and paint that and walk the animals, but come half ...
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June 22, 2009
- I have just written 600 words, and it's 11.27 am. For me, that's huge! A good day. And I am thinking about ritual, because on my last day here at Anam Cara I realised that I sort of set up a ritual: breakfast, walk down to the river, sit for a while thinking about what I might write, or thinking about something else and waiting for it to come, it arriving, and going back to my room to write it - ...
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