minderella
Subscriber since: Tue Oct 19 11:30:00 EDT 2010
Location: Newtown, OH
About Me
I am a beautiful lady with a passion for etymology and streaks of blue in my hair.

One of my favorite things is a winter evening on the couch, blanketed by kitty cats and handsome husbands.
My Word Lists
My Favorites

Favorite Word:

cat

Least Favorite Word:

no

Favorite Quote:

""What do we want?" "FRY'S DOG!" "When do we want it?" "FRY'S DOG!""
- Several New New Yorkers

Favorite Topics:

Blogs:

Creativity:

Nine ways to finish the writing you start

Dictionaries:

The Post-Dictionary World?

Fiction writing:

Why You Should Blog BEFORE Writing Your Book

Grammar:

Seven Sentences You Should Stop Writing
How to Make Your Sentences Shorter

Language:

Metaphors We Live By (Updated)
Brand Names of the Year for 2021

Linguistics:

Scale Your Onboarding

Poetry:

And Forget the He and She
In Praise of Ambiguity

Puzzle:

To Bee or Not to Bee?

Reading:

How to Read More Books

Word Origins:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
Scale Your Onboarding

Words:

Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse