Here are some excerpts from college students’ creative writing papers:
Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides gently compressed by a thigh master.
His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
He spoke with wisdom that can only come from [...]
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A way with words
January 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · humor, weird, words
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Tangier, VA accents
December 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · humor, odd, words
English takes on all sorts of dialects. You can usually pick out a Brit or an Aussie when he speaks the Queen’s English. Surprisingly, some folks in Tangier, Virginia speak English that sounds totally alien.
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New words for consideration
November 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · clever, humor, words
Called ‘Sniglets” a long time ago, these words bear some serious thought.
1. AQUADEXTROUS
(ak wa deks’trus) adj. Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub tap on and off with your toes.
2. CARPERPETUATION
(kar’pur pet u a shun) n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, [...]
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Who’s on First? Typography
October 21st, 2009 · Comments Off · humor, words
Follow along, or at least try to, with Abbott & Costello’s famous baseball routine shown in fonts. Typography. Printed words.
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Lehyphena
October 20th, 2009 · 4 Comments · amazing, humor, words
Short discourse of the day.
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Guess the accent
October 15th, 2009 · Comments Off · words
Play this little guessing game where you try to guess the country of origin based on the person’s accent. Rather difficult based on the multiple choice answers offered.
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Puns abound
October 11th, 2009 · Comments Off · humor, words
TANKS A LOT is an entire website devoted to shop names that are plays on words. Many are quite clever and some are downright groaners. Have a look here.
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Can puns be clever?
September 15th, 2009 · Comments Off · humor, words
1. The roundest knight at King Arthur’s Round Table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
2. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
3. She was only a whiskey maker, but he loved her still.
4. A rubber band pistol [...]
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British staccato
July 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · humor, sports, words
An English football player has a little sit-down with an interviewer. We can see his lips moving, but the words elude us. Probably a hybrid of English and Scottish together. Simultaneously, at the same time.
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Origin of the word
July 14th, 2009 · Comments Off · beer, humor, words
BEER. Why is it called that? Marina Orlova, from Hot for Words clues us in. Replay the video if you didn’t catch all of that.
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Words from science / fiction
July 3rd, 2009 · Comments Off · clever, science, words
Robotics and genetic engineering are two terms bandied about in science and techie circles. It’s a little known fact that these words were not the brain children of the scientific lab community but rather, the writers of science fiction. There are other words as well that come from the fertile imaginations of of scifi writers.
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Answering machine message from MS tech support
July 1st, 2009 · Comments Off · Microsoft, humor, tech, words
IT is not just for the East Indians anymore. This guy also has a part time job as a butcher.
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