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Tag Archives: English
Language Video and #ROW80
I am shamelessly lifting a video from the FABULOUS blog of K.B. Owen (subscribe right now if you like mystery and/or history). She pointed the way to this awesome video about the history of the English language from The Open University: … Continue reading
Posted in ROW80
Tagged English, history of English language, Julie Glover, Julie Glover Author, K.B. Owen, Kathy Owen, ROW80, writing challenge
9 Comments
Oy! Adding a Little Yiddish to Your English
I am proudly one-sixteenth Jewish. For most of my life, I didn’t even know that. I think I learned of my Jewish heritage in my teens or 20s. However, I realized the other day how many Yiddish words I naturally … Continue reading
A Lesson with Miss Spelling
Some time ago, my blog was visited by the well-known language arts teacher, Miss Pronunciation. She helped to clarify proper articulation of commonly mispronounced words, such as library and et cetera. I was recently contacted by her colleague, Miss Spelling, … Continue reading
Posted in Amazing Words Wednesday
Tagged commonly misspelled words, English, Julie Glover, language, misspelled words, spelling
29 Comments
Truly Colorful Idioms
Idioms are one of my favorite things to look up and discover their origins. Idioms are phrases or sayings which have an underlying and generally understood meaning apart from the literal words themselves. For instance, “dead as a doornail” or … Continue reading
Posted in Amazing Words Wednesday
Tagged Albert Jack, blackmail, caught red-handed, color phrases, English, etymology, green with envy, idiom etymology, idiom origin, idioms, in the pink, Julie Glover, language, once in a blue moon, origin of phrases, paint the town red, phrases, red herring, red-handed, Roni Loren, The Phrase Finder, tickled pink, white elephant, white knight, word origins, words, yellow-belly
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Banished! Leave These Words Behind
Do you get sick of hearing the same words over and over? Take “fail,” for instance. It was the in word last year, and believe me, I knew it with my kids uttering it at every possible opportunity. I began … Continue reading
Prickly Pronunciations
These words all rhyme: New Cue Lieu Woo Do So how do you spell the “oo” sound in English? Um, it depends. The English language represents a mixing of cultures because it has borrowed words from many other tongues and … Continue reading
Posted in Wednesday Words
Tagged English, Julie Glover, language, poem, pronunciation, words
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Speaking the Queen’s English (Or At Least Her Servant’s Bloody English)
“England and America are two countries separated by a common language.” George Bernard Shaw If you’ve watched BBC comedies or attempted to look for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in a British bookstore, you quickly discover that there are … Continue reading
Posted in Wednesday Words
Tagged American English, British English, English, Harry Potter, Hugh Laurie, J.K. Rowling, Julie Glover, language, long words, slang
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Wednesday Words: Shakespeare Shares
How many people can say that they coined phrases that will still be in use over 400 years after they introduced them? Only a handful, I would think. But I have discovered that William Shakespeare is to credit, or blame, … Continue reading
Posted in Wednesday Words
Tagged English, Julie Glover, language, phrases, Shakespeare, words
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