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English Language Oddities

The list-loving folks at listverse.com have come up with 25 English Language Oddities to illustrate some of the curiosities and gotchas that native speakers don’t think about, but that make English one of the trickiest languages to learn. Here are some of my favorites: “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters [...]

Life According to Thomas Broome

Swedish artist Thomas Broome creates images out of words. Literally. This ongoing project, which he calls Modern Mantra, explores the everyday dimensionality of objects, using the object’s name to give it form. Related Posts The Art of Staples Typewriters and Ribbon Tins Fantastic Universe Book Covers Classic Soul Scramble Very Long Words

Bokeh Type

Here’s a fun experiment to help you get over the mid-week blahs. Head over to the Bokeh Type webpage, click in the center and start typing. I’m not sure what exactly is going on there, but it is pretty cool. Related Posts Cormac McCarthy’s Typewriter Vocabulary Yoga 3 Outstanding Anagrams Writers On Writing World’s Smallest [...]

Writers on Writing

There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. —Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say. —Anaïs Nin If there’s a book you really want to read, but it [...]

Very Long Words

In my ongoing hunt for all things wordy, I came across this video that cleverly weaves together some of the longest words in the English language. A couple of them I use from time to time, like when I’m singing from my Mary Poppins repertoire, or discussing long words and the establishment, but I’m going [...]

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