carlos R.
Subscriber since: March 2012
Location:
Perth,
Australia
About Me
Someone who loves words and The Word
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Favorite Word:
serendipityAs this is the brand name of the icecream I most enjoyed ... so far; and also the way I found "visual thesaurus", I was not looking for it, was nice to come across it ...
I met my wife by serendipity ...
The most nice and wonderful things of my past experiences that came to happen and give me ongoing pleasure are defined by this nice word SERENDIPITY!
Least Favorite Word:
fuckused to often ... to denote an oughful (f..) emosional state and to ofend people
Favorite Quote:
""and you will know the truth and the truth shall set you free""
- New Testament in the Bible, the Gospel of St John Chapter 8, v. 32
Favorite Topics:
Dictionaries:
A Taxing Day for Dictionaries
April 15, 2013
A Worldly Tour of the Oxford English Dictionary
January 23, 2013
- 3 Comments
How to write:
Linguists:
A Linguist Answers, "Why Do I Do What I Do?"
January 17, 2011
Telling the Life Stories of Words
December 7, 2010
Poetry:
The Return of the Grammar Haiku Contest
February 28, 2013
- 2 Comments
Celebrating Fibonacci Day
November 15, 2012
Spelling:
Scripps National Spelling Bee Adds Vocabulary Questions
April 11, 2013
- 3 Comments
Rosanne Cash Knows Her "Ischium" at a Literary Spelling Bee
November 20, 2012
- 1 Comment
Storytelling:
Type Casting
January 24, 2012
- 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011
- 5 Comments
Teaching:
A Question of Grammar
April 30, 2013
Always Never Something: Eliminating Five Overused Words
April 29, 2013
- 15 Comments
Visual Thesaurus:
Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012
- 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
Vocabulary:
Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013
- 1 Comment
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7 Comments
Web tools:
Twitter Me This: New Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
November 15, 2011
- 3 Comments
Tracking Dialects on Twitter: What's Coo and What's Koo?
November 4, 2011
- 4 Comments
Word Origins:
Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013
March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013
WordMasters:
WordMasters: Grade 3 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
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