Tag Archive for 'English Language'

It’s On The Tip Of My Tongue

According to some strenuous research (I sat down and googled the whole topic and then browsed around for a bit), your vocabulary is directly correlated with the amount of time you spend reading. That is, the more time you spend reading on a daily basis, the larger your vocabulary. And that’s a good thing. Other [...]

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Operation Mighty Hunter I

by Richard The difference between a cockroach and a mouse is more in the way they move than in how many legs they have. Well, at least it is when you’re more than three-quarters asleep, sitting on a toilet very early in the morning and are, like my wife, known to me as She Who [...]

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It’s Like They Have A Different Word For Everything

by Richard There’s an old Steve Martin bit, where he complains that when he went to France it was hard to talk to the France-ians because of their language, in that it was almost as if they had a different word for everything. Laughter ensues. Move on with the show. That got me thinking, though, [...]

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