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Jan P.
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Favorite Quote:
"I cannot prasie a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed."
- John Milton
Favorite Topics:
Books:
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse
August 13, 2021
Highly Entertaining and Informative
August 3, 2021
Copywriting:
Nine ways to finish the writing you start
July 28, 2022
The Lingo of Film Noir
November 19, 2021
Dictionaries:
The Post-Dictionary World?
June 3, 2021
Finding (or Inventing) Euphemisms in the Latest OED Update
November 13, 2019
Fiction writing:
Of Time, Happiness, Creativity and Writing Accomplishments....
December 23, 2021
Why You Should Blog BEFORE Writing Your Book
December 23, 2021
Grammar:
Seven Sentences You Should Stop Writing
November 23, 2020
How to Make Your Sentences Shorter
June 25, 2020
How to write:
Nine ways to finish the writing you start
July 28, 2022
How to Survive Until You're Famous or Successful
March 24, 2022
Language:
Metaphors We Live By (Updated)
March 3, 2022
Brand Names of the Year for 2021
December 16, 2021
Language arts:
The Enduring Impact of English Teachers on Students
April 28, 2015
The Art of Subterfuge: Using Pop Culture to Create Interest in the Classics
December 5, 2014
Linguistics:
Scale Your Onboarding
June 2, 2022
Tricky, Special, Fruitful, Space-Flavored Fiddle-Faddle
April 14, 2022
Naming:
Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
July 21, 2022
Understanding "Maven"
May 19, 2022
Reading:
How to Read More Books
November 19, 2018
Pride and Prejudice and Natural Language Processing
April 2, 2018
Usage:
Comparative Nonsense
November 1, 2019
Unexpected Cousins
April 1, 2019
Visual Thesaurus:
The Post-Dictionary World?
June 3, 2021
Poll Stars
October 19, 2020
WordMasters:
WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 3 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
Words:
Shoot! How Gun Idioms Color Our Speech
July 21, 2022
"Nine Nasty Words": How and Why We Curse
August 13, 2021
Writers:
Nine ways to finish the writing you start
July 28, 2022
How to Survive the Feast or Famine of Freelance Writing
April 28, 2022
Writing:
Nine ways to finish the writing you start
July 28, 2022
How to Survive the Feast or Famine of Freelance Writing
April 28, 2022
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