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Where’s that? – 100 words

June 23, 2023 By Ellen

Where’s that?   Indian Summer Indian giver Bermuda shorts Glasgow kiss Chinese whispers Not for all the tea in China Chinese Burn Dutch courage Going Dutch Dutch uncle Double Dutch Road to Damascus New York minute French kiss French letter French knickers French onion French horn Sent to Coventry Brussels sprout Coals to Newcastle German […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, idioms, linguistics, words

Talking posh – 100 words

April 11, 2023 By Ellen

Talking posh If you’ve ever cast off and set sail, you will not be taken aback to learn it’s above board to claim a landlubber’s language is chock-a-block with gifts from an old salt. You can tell from cut of this tar’s jib that he needs a wide berth and won’t toe the line. A […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, nautical, words

Helping your child develop their vocabulary

July 11, 2022 By Ellen

  Developing a wide vocabulary range is important for a child. Alongside formal education, a parent’s involvement in teaching their child new vocabulary is vital. As much as 95% of words come from the time and efforts given by parents and the variety of vocabulary they achieve by a certain age. It is very to […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: communication, discussion, education, reading, School, talking, vocabulary, words

The power of new words and why we need more

March 15, 2019 By Ellen

Without Shakespeare, there would be no managers, no swagger, no addiction, nothing bedazzling, new-fangled or gloomy. And these are just a few of the words he invented. There’s nothing new about neologisms. We’re always coming up with a word for something we need to talk about. Freakshakes, fat-bergs, manspaining, covfefe, floordrobes and hygge, for example. […]

Filed Under: other things I have learned, review Tagged With: advice, desire paths, humour, in my life, in the world, linguistics, neologism, words, writing

Periods. Period. What should we call it?

January 28, 2018 By Ellen

It’s a terrible cringe of a word – period. If a word ever wore a tight bun and kept its books in alphabetical order, it’s a period. This is the word that goes with the twee trickles of dyed blue water poured in gleaming ad-land laboratories. Period. Flow, stop. Period. We need something better. Humanity […]

Filed Under: family Tagged With: feminism, humour, in my life, menopause, menstruate, period, women, words

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