The net morning. Aarie vew to school earier thar asnel. Ms. Green was unlocking the classoom. "You'te an early hird." Ms. Green said. Karie's hands trembled. She handed her teacher the spelling paner and the dictionary. "I can't keep this. I misspelled "honestly' and you didn'...
She’d spelled "honesty", not "honestly". She hurriedly erased the t-y and wrote l-y before handing in her paper. Ms. McCormack graded the test papers at break. Meanwhile, Karie sat restlessly in her seat with her fingers cr...
Because the thing is – it’s not just rude or thoughtless. It actually turns the kind gesture onto itself. Because you tried to hold that door for someone to be nice. But now that you’re stuck standing there like a putz… spending down your seconds on this planet to help the moral ...
A poetic device in which words that begin with the same sound are strung together. altschmerz An emotion; Weariness with the same old issues that you've always had - the same boring flaws and arieties that you've been gnawing on for years. amanuensis A scribe; someone employed to take...
Crappulous (sometimes spelled ‘Crapulous’) Crashed Crashed and Burned Crazed Crazy Drunk Creamed Croaked Crocked Crocko Crocus Cronk Crooked Crooking the Elbow Cropsick Cross-eyed Crump Crump Footed Crumped Crumped Out Crushed Crying Drunk ...
So naturally, texting has evolved also in terms of the language used within it. We see this mostly in the form of abbreviations and short hand spelled words. Some people argue that texting has ruined the English language. Studies and observations have shown that the benefits of texting and ...
Doolittle and his wife Joe (that’s how she spelled it) had two sons, Jim and John, both of whom served in the Second World War. The general wrote about the younger son: John was in his plebe year at West Point and the upperclassmen were harassing him no end…. While the value ...
The foundation of my personal leadership philosophy can be found in the principles of servant leadership as spelled out by Greenleaf (1970, 1977). Leadership is granted to individuals who are by nature servants. An individual emerges as a leader by first becoming a servant. Servant leaders attend...
(ba-leh-BUST-eh) n. A top-notch homemaker; super-woman or super woman;eshet chayilpar excellence. Also spelled balabusteh, balaboosteh, etc. Balebatim (bal-e-BAT-im) n. pl. Persons of high standing; reputable people; community leaders (the board members of the synagogue). The adjecti...
Among the beneficiaries of a Singapore mission school education were members of the Tsutada family, who were based at Bras Basah Road. The family’s patriarch, Kenri (also spelled Kenry or Henry), was a dentist who advertised the ability to speak English and Malay. A staunch Christian, Kenr...