Chatter Matters
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Under Brontean Thunder (N. Hilton, _Lexis Complexes_, ch. 7)
"Eyre" is also an old word for a journey or errand, as in the ancient "Justices in eyre" and the name of…" #fndgs
“...the words "rupture" and "operation" on websites. It can't have "ruptured" - I'm nor screaming. I just feel like I've JUST been KICKED”
“It's just the opposite of "QUICK-witted". If you ban "Retard" you should scrap "Quick" too - but if you want to BAN words - yer off-beam "."”
“Think I am going to have to re-hex some of Turnip and split it into 2 or 3 pages. Would like to find original penning. Words 2003. Pix 2006.”
“They're having a bet - so could have called this "The King's Shilling"...."...he's not quite the (King's) shilling". #TheKingsSpeech #Words”
“Really odd choices of words as well. "Stein" is a beer tankard, isn't it ? #ABoyNamedCharlieBrown #PatternsinWords #Spelling #Cartoons”
“Now they're dancing about "ei" words with NO letters on screen. You need to COMBINE aural and visual, surely.”
“There's a song in this film about spelling took 'em ages 2 start putting the words on screen including a "z" in "leisure" that's not a joke.”
“It DOES serve its purpose I s'pose - it HAS to be THAT length to fit THAT music and in the FULL context it won't matter that words B2 small”
Wacom Intuos 5 Review
Wacom Intuos 5 Review: Touch and Gesture features for Mac people. No word on bad nib durability that plagued Version 4
“Ooo ! "Pugs" are called "Pugs" as an abbreviation of Pugnacious, link to Pugilists, punchy punks. #Dogs #Pets #Animals #Words #Language”
“Hmm so what happened to the "s" where the English for Math is MathS and the American for Sport is SportS? #Language #Words #DividedbyaCommon”
“"our sap was enfiladed...they got up ten gabions" - TEMPLE GODMAN Nov 12 1855 Um, pardon, Sir ? #Language #Words #Vocabulary #NoIdeaMatey”
“...and it means Professor Yaffle should wash 'is bleedin' beak out. #Words”
“"Flapdoodle" IS rude. Flapdoodle means flaccid phallus. #Words”
“Godman always refers to his "soup" as "PORTABLE soup" & the harshest term he uses for another human being is "Rascal". #TempleGodman #Words”
“No one says "ague" any more. #Words”
“A "wide-awake" is a 19th century hat. #Words #Vocabulary #Togs #Clothes”
“Zipster pointed out that Madonna says "whilst" not "while" and that that is a Britishism. Is it? #English #Dialects #Words #Vocabulary”
“Is there any such person as a ROUGH "Jonty" ? #Class #Society #Names #Words #Labels #Nomenclature #Branding #Jonty”
