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Wednesday Words & Woes: A Logophile's or Cruciverbalist's Challenge
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Many of my readers know I love crossword puzzles; I eagerly wait each week for the Sunday Boston Globe newspaper with its magazine tucked inside to see what's in store for me. · Last year -- yes, 2016 -- one of the magazine's top articles concerned home makeovers, so I kept it a ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: One Real (But Not Accepted) and Two Not Even Real
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Questions arise constantly about words -- which to use, which to never use, and why. · In my Brush Up on Your American Grammar workshops, I refer to some words as not accepted or not standard, meaning they are in dictionaries but are not considered proper English (at least not y ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: One word or two?
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · English is a weird language. I can't speak for any other one, but we often have words with the same letters in them, but sometimes the words are really two separate words and sometimes they're just one solid word. · As a basic rule of thumb, if you're using words like those shown ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: A Productivity Killer
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Funny. When we were kids, most of us heard and maybe said, “Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” You remember that, right? · Then we grew up, and most of us learned that words do matter. Words have power. Words set the framework for how we feel, w ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: "A" for Effort!
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Frequent readers of my blogs know that each Tuesday I publish a "Tuesday Tricksters" list of miserable words – known as homophones (words that sound the same, or nearly so) – because they're so easy to misuse. · Yesterday, one of my readers (Asesh Datta) asked if I could just rem ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: Anagrams
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Did you ever play anagrams when you were a kid? You know, rearranging letters in a word to make another one? They were lots of fun -- for some of us, anyway -- and they did teach an important lesson: read what you've written. Words can be tricky. · I think some of us writers are ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: Fun With Jeopardy!
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · I love this show. I really, really LOVE this show! I don't know if it's shown anywhere except the U.S., but I hope it is. · The premise of the show is that the contestants (and everyone watching) are given the answers, and they have to come up with the question. Seems simple, but ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: More "Cross" Words
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Longtime readers of my posts know that I love words, and I love crossword puzzles. But I have to say, sometimes I wonder how or why a certain word got used in one of the puzzles. · Sometimes I've never seen or even imagined the word that is the answer; other times, I haven't kno ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: Words that DO Exist!
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · It is way too hot to think heavy thoughts here in the Northeast part of the U.S. We are sweltering under extremely high temps and humidity. So for today's post, I pulled a page out of my American Grammar long program -- a fun one. · I created this six-hour program about ten years ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: Incidence and Incidents
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Today's edition of Wednesday Words & Woes was suggested by Sarah Elkins, and they're words that are indeed often confused. Let's see if this post helps! · These words are true homophones, words that sound the same (or nearly so) but are spelled differently and have different mean ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: To, Too, Two -- By Special Request
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · I originally posted this on May 18, 2016, on LInkedIn in response to some readers' questions. But I wasn't posting here on beBee then, and it seems like a good one for many writers. · ***************** · Sometimes I get lucky and a bunch of readers ask for help on the same homoph ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: More Words I Never Knew Existed
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Living in eastern Massachusetts, USA, I (along with thousands of others) read The Boston Globe newspaper and its magazine section every Sunday. There is always at least one interesting--sometimes really tough--crossword puzzle to solve, and sometimes I don't even know the word ...
Wednesday Words & Woes: Passed and Past
Susan 🐝 Rooks, The Grammar Goddess · Thanks to Paul "Pablo" Croubalian for suggesting these two words, true homophones that can confound even the best writers. And as we all know, spellcheck will not help us here. · The easiest way to remember them is by recognizing that we form the past tense of a regular verb in A ...
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