The copy editors on my last two books, How To Ditch Your Fairy and Liar, found I’d spelled various of the characters names in two or more different ways. I hadn’t noticed. Apparently that’s because spelling is linked to visual memory and mine is crap.1 There are very few blogs ...
If you want to reach your highest potential, making your achievements visible, especially to those at senior levels, is as important as the actual tasks spelled out in your job description. If you don’t find a way to speak about the value of what you’re doing, you send a message ...
While it is still possible to help an older child with reading, those beyond third grade require much more intensive help.The longer you wait to get help for a child with reading difficulties, the harder it will be for that child to catch up. If help is given in fourth grade (rather ...
my mother who was now in her 80s and her health was and still is declining, dad still healthy but not coping, so I made the decision to go back to the family home to help dad after all we only have one mum right and I wanted to spend time with her in her last years. This was...
t doesn't always describe a loud noise. It's any sound effect that is spelled like the sound it makes. How to Write Sounds with Onomatopoeia You've probably seen onomatopoeia in comic books where the good guy punches the bad guy and you'll see “Pow!” or a bomb goes off and you ...
Americans need a renewed national story to provide a common identity. As Jill Lepore has put it, “they can get it from scholars or they can get it from demagogues, but get it they will.” Which raises the dark side of this iteration of our national myth: the notion th...
Jill_C • Community Expert , Mar 30, 2024 There are numerous AI drawing errors on many images, evident even at small,thumbnail size. This one should never have been approved because "Happy Birthday" is mispelled on the cake: https://stock...
long I spelled IE, as in pie the letter I can be long when it is followed by a consonant and Silent E, as in timeGetting confused yet? Has this list given you information overload? Wait—there’s even more!This spelling list has two more curveballs:The...
In 2016 researchers at the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Financial Research (OFR), Jill Cetina, Mark Paddrik and Sriram Rajan, meticulously spelled out for federal regulators and the general public the potential for cont...
or there’s a newer primer out there that is latex based but supposed to be every bit as good, I’m not sure how to spell it, but it’s pronounced Sticks… it may be spelled Styx??) Anyway, thanks for the great tute, and cute room!!! Little Bit Reply Viki Stanley-Hutchison ...