• Pronunciation: This book uses “real-world pronunciation” rather than traditional linguistic pronunciations (y’know, with the upside down “e” and all that.) The syllables are spelled out the way they sound, and the syllable that gets the emphasis is in italics. • A few informative...
Three more words to go. N-i-c-e-l-y. Q-u-i-c-k-l-y. H-o-n-e-s-t-y. Wait! She’d spelled honesty, not honestly. She hurriedly erased the t-y and wrote l-y before handing in her paper. d Ms. McCormack graded the test papers at the break. Meanwhile, Karie sat restle...
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...
I’ve always had a fascination with words. Even as a child I would pour through dictionaries, encyclopedias and any reference book I could get my hands on. In 1991-92, I wrote a guidebook to bars in the county where I was living at that time and in that book I also included several...
Three more words to go. N-i-c-e-l-y. Q-u-i-c-k-l-y. H-o-n-e-s-t-y. Wait! She’d spelled "honesty", not "honestly". She hurriedly erased the t-y and wrote l-y before handing in her paper. Ms. McCormack ...
Energy defines these kids. My classroom was set up to create it. From “The Side Question” on the side whiteboard, changed daily, that entertained their comments and interests, to “The Far Side” cartoons that spelled “SMILE” on the other side of the classroom, to the Daily Dad Joke...
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...
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 ...
The HYFYDCD has an entry for pǒnài (spelled 尀耐), with a similar meaning (glossed as kěhèn 可恨; kěwù 可惡‘regrettable; despisable’), and with references to the Mandarin of the Yuán dynasty.44 Although the two words are certainly related, the HYFYDCD glosses pǒnài 叵耐sepa...