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Ellen
Subscriber since: February 2012
Location: Reno, NV
About Me
I do not write stuff about myself on a public screen, I just love words, their origins, where the words have been and how they were used in our past.
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Favorite Word:
profundity
This word can be used be used in the most profound ways (hah hah).
Least Favorite Word:
shit
Just don't like the sound or meaning.
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Favorite Topics:
Dictionaries:
A Taxing Day for Dictionaries
April 15, 2013
A Worldly Tour of the Oxford English Dictionary
January 23, 2013
- 3
Comments
Grammar:
Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
May 22, 2013
- 3
Comments
Such Examples as These
May 20, 2013
Language:
Participial Con-Fusion: When Possession is the Law
May 22, 2013
- 3
Comments
"Beat-Upedness"?
May 21, 2013
- 5
Comments
Linguistics:
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Meronymy?
May 1, 2013
- 11
Comments
What's Happening?
March 1, 2013
- 6
Comments
Linguists:
A Linguist Answers, "Why Do I Do What I Do?"
January 17, 2011
Telling the Life Stories of Words
December 7, 2010
Naming:
XOXO Marks the Spot
February 14, 2013
How to Name Anything
January 17, 2013
- 4
Comments
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
Vocabulary:
Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013
- 1
Comment
Unpalatable: A Plateful of Similar Words
May 16, 2013
- 7
Comments
Word Origins:
Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
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
Words:
Leaning Back to Look at "Lean In"
May 23, 2013
- 1
Comment
"Beat-Upedness"?
May 21, 2013
- 5
Comments
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