Amazing Words Wednesday
Poetry You Actually Like
After my Limericks post, I realized how true it is that people who swear they don’t like poetry actually might. Plenty of people enjoy limericks, and that’s poetry. What other poetry masquerades as something fun rather than something you must…
Lining Up at the Movies
What primarily fascinates me about language is how by simply choosing and ordering words, we can convey something meaningful to someone else. That fact is the foundation of speaking and writing. Sometimes, however, what’s said moves beyond meaningful and becomes…
Limericks: There Once Was a Blogger from Texas
It’s another Amaze-ing Words Wednesday with a fun with language post! Who doesn’t love a good limerick? Leprechauns in the City of Limerick, Ireland Limericks are five-lined poems with the aabba rhyme scheme in which the 1st, 2nd, and 5th lines…
Can I Make Up a Word?
“I speak of the pompatus of love.” Welcome to Amaze-ing Words Wednesday! There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who believe that Steve Miller is super-cool for making up a word -“pompatus” [of love] – and those…
A Lesson with Miss Pronunciation
It’s time for AMAZE-ing Words Wednesday! Today’s word lesson will be taught by renowned language arts instructor, Miss Pronunciation. Miss Pronunciation will present the incorrect and correct ways of articulating some commonly mispronounced words in the English language. Without further…
The Breast Way to Describe It
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! This is a cause close to my heart. In honor of the fight against breast cancer, both of my posts this week will address it. Today, though,is AMAZE-ing Words Wednesday, when I feature something…