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Words, words, words. About Word Tasting Notes. Word Tasting Note Index. 100% of these usages is wrong. Conjugation, English grammar, grammar, numbers, percent, percentages, quantifiers, quantities, verbs. Aesthetic philosophy, Alex Colville, art, art criticism, Art Gallery of Ontario, captions, curation, curator notes, painting, photography, placards. Among other things, it’s a sentence adverb. Among other things, dangler, grammar. Apparently ignorance is in vogue at Slate. Credit, editing, editors.
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Words, words, words. About Word Tasting Notes. Word Tasting Note Index. Different sounds that we think are the same sound (but others don’t). August 12, 2015. Tonight’s episode has been pre-empted. Pre-empted! Is it cancelled or just postponed? Means Its source (via French) is Latin. This entry was posted in word tasting notes. Different sounds that we think are the same sound (but others don’t). 2 responses to “ pre-empt. August 13, 2015 at 5:38 am. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Words, words, words. About Word Tasting Notes. Word Tasting Note Index. Newer posts →. August 10, 2016. My first acquaintance with this word was in the phrase. Though I’ll be damned if I can remember where I first saw it; when I Google the phrase, the first hit to use it is Sesquiotica. I’m not sure why one would incline to pilfering a small fish; one could as easily filch a flitch (a side of bacon) or a finch although the finch might flinch, if it were quick. Or something ground up, like. August 7, 2016.
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Words, words, words. About Word Tasting Notes. Word Tasting Note Index. The majority of these second-guesses are wrong. February 26, 2009. There are some bits of usage that people are more likely to get wrong if they stop and try to get them right. I encountered one of the most noteworthy and commonly confounding cases in a recent edit, when I had to change “the majority was” to “the majority were” and “the remainder was” to “the remainder were.”. With a plural verb. What’s going on here is the sam...
When to Use Bad English | Sesquiotica
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Words, words, words. About Word Tasting Notes. Word Tasting Note Index. When to Use Bad English. June 15, 2015. This is the text of the presentation I gave at the Editors’ Association of Canada “Editing Goes Global” conference in Toronto on June 12, 2015. Headings are PowerPoint slides. As editors, we’re here to make sure the text doesn’t look sloppy or uneducated. We’re expected to uphold standards of good grammar, and no matter what the text keep it from using bad English. Right? I know, right? I open ...
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The Written Word and Other Fantastic Creatures. Analysis, thoughts and occasional sarcasm on language, media, and the exciting world of the internet. A blog about the trials and tribulations of transitioning print journalism to online. Everything you wanted to know about words, grammar and editing but were afraid to ask (cliched but true). A blog about, you guessed it, paying for content. By a former employee of Editor&Publisher, this is a blog about digital media, web 2.0 and news in the internet era.
Take Our Word For It Blog: March 2014
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Take Our Word For It Blog. This is the companion blog to the Take Our Word For It webzine (http:/ www.takeourword.com). Sunday, March 23, 2014. Cobbling Together Some Etymologies. Cobb Salad: http:/ bit.ly/1jjy9al. Cobb salad. I love a good Cobb salad. The salad itself is relatively easy to put together — ham, eggs, tomatoes, avocado, chicken, Roquefort cheese, and greens. It's the dressing that matters most to me, and I found a recipe I like. On this, though a source is not cited:. Wilshire Boulevard (t...
Take Our Word For It Blog: April 2014
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Take Our Word For It Blog. This is the companion blog to the Take Our Word For It webzine (http:/ www.takeourword.com). Sunday, April 20, 2014. Mesclun from http:/ www.foodsubs.com/Greensld.html. The latest blog entry is a bit late because I was traveling to, attending, and returning from a funeral, and thereafter I was caring for an ill (now fully recovered) cat. My travels and care-giving experiences turned up quite a few words that piqued (not "peaked"! Mix" which gave us words like meddle. There were...
Take Our Word For It Blog: Why is Quinoa Pronounced As Though It Were French?
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Take Our Word For It Blog. This is the companion blog to the Take Our Word For It webzine (http:/ www.takeourword.com). Thursday, January 1, 2015. Why is Quinoa Pronounced As Though It Were French? Quinoa. Photo credit Christian Guthier. The shibbolethic (is that a word? Has puzzled me for some time. How does a word that came to English from Spanish end up being pronounced as though it were French? I would expect it to be spelled quinois. The Quechua word for "quinoa" is kínuwa. So for some speakers here...
Take Our Word For It Blog: Miscellany
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Take Our Word For It Blog. This is the companion blog to the Take Our Word For It webzine (http:/ www.takeourword.com). Sunday, April 20, 2014. Mesclun from http:/ www.foodsubs.com/Greensld.html. The latest blog entry is a bit late because I was traveling to, attending, and returning from a funeral, and thereafter I was caring for an ill (now fully recovered) cat. My travels and care-giving experiences turned up quite a few words that piqued (not "peaked"! Mix" which gave us words like meddle. There were...
Take Our Word For It Blog: T is for Texas, TOWFI and Twitter
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Take Our Word For It Blog. This is the companion blog to the Take Our Word For It webzine (http:/ www.takeourword.com). Sunday, March 2, 2014. T is for Texas, TOWFI and Twitter. We had some relatively wild weather in northern California this week. Some of you may recall that I have a B.S. in meteorology (weather, not meteors. Greeek meteoron. Meant "something high or lofty" and came to mean "phenomena in the sky or heavens" ). If you follow TOWFI on Twitter. I'll speak a bit more about mammatus. The "utt...
Take Our Word For It Blog: July 2014
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Take Our Word For It Blog. This is the companion blog to the Take Our Word For It webzine (http:/ www.takeourword.com). Monday, July 21, 2014. Our Dear Old Al-. Allergies-does local honey help? Allergy season in the Northern Hemisphere has been upon us for some time (though one member of the Take Our Word For It. Whence does it derive? I was rather surprised to find that it was coined by a German scientist ( C. E. von Pirquet. He formed it from the Greek words allos. Other, different" and ergon. Speak" (...
Take Our Word For It Blog: October 2009
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Take Our Word For It Blog. This is the companion blog to the Take Our Word For It webzine (http:/ www.takeourword.com). Saturday, October 31, 2009. Yes, we've been absent a long time. We apologize for that. We simply got too busy with our "day jobs" and didn't have enough time to pursue our love of etymology. And we've been suffering because of it! However, we want you to know that we are working on Take Our Word For It. Edgar Allen Poe introduced the word to English from Norwegian in 1841. The strom.
Take Our Word For It Blog: January 2015
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Take Our Word For It Blog. This is the companion blog to the Take Our Word For It webzine (http:/ www.takeourword.com). Thursday, January 1, 2015. Why is Quinoa Pronounced As Though It Were French? Quinoa. Photo credit Christian Guthier. The shibbolethic (is that a word? Has puzzled me for some time. How does a word that came to English from Spanish end up being pronounced as though it were French? I would expect it to be spelled quinois. The Quechua word for "quinoa" is kínuwa. So for some speakers here...
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Alcaldía de Sesquilé - Cundinamarca. COMPROMISO SOCIAL CON SESQUILÉ 2012-2015. Sitio oficial de Sesquilé en Cundinamarca, Colombia. Inventario de bienes inmuebles. Atención a la ciudadania. Ayudas para navegar en el sitio. Peticiones, Quejas y reclamos. Servicios de atención en línea. Documentos sobre el municipio. Dónde encontrar más información? Proyecto de normas municipales. Sistema general de regalías. Acerca de las regalías. Las regalías del municipio. La normatividad de las regalías. Ejemplo de di...
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Monday, September 26, 2011. Blocking (yet another) Aeolian. I wasn't expecting to knit another full-sized Aeolian. Let alone another in the same colour as my very first one. But then I found myself participating in an impromptu craft exchange. So, at the end of a few weeks of knitting (and what feels like several million nupps) I found myself with Aeolian No. 4 off the needles and needing blocking. Anyway, here goes. I was planning to soak it for half an hour or so, just to make sure the yarn was well sa...
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Words, words, words. About Word Tasting Notes. Word Tasting Note Index. August 12, 2015. Tonight’s episode has been pre-empted. Pre-empted! Is it cancelled or just postponed? Means Its source (via French) is Latin. Different sounds that we think are the same sound (but others don’t). August 11, 2015. The subtle sounds that English speakers have trouble catching. August 10, 2015. That is English spelling goes awry. I’m sure you and your coworkers have often been misled. Onto a pronunciation sideroad.
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Human kind Cannot bear very much reality." - T.S. Eliot. 24 April, 2012. Reading, Part I: Literature. However, it's beyond refreshing to be getting back into (English language) literature mode of late. (There's been plenty of French literature, which is fun in its own right: my current read in that language is Monsieur Larose, est-il l'assassin,. Fortunately, I did bring one American novel, Saul Bellow's The Victim,. Has been Kate Chopin's Awakening. Links to this post. The Arts in General. 19 April, 2012.
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Just an assortment of pop-culture selections. Mostly philology, video games, and music. Monday, March 5, 2012. Issuing Some New Changes. Just let me know how they go over. Thank you. Tuesday, February 28, 2012. Well, I've been doing some more compiling and should be finished with a new list by April. "Ugliest Words" on its way. Also, 250,000 views. Thanks for sharing this site, everyone. Friday, August 5, 2011. Well, I have a New Comp, Now. Saturday, June 25, 2011. Friday, May 20, 2011. Chantpleure: to c...
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