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Archives for January 2014

Head toward the Hills

January 27, 2014 by Judy

It doesn’t seem like it should be such a big deal whether you use toward or towards in a sentence like this:

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Dishing on Dis

January 16, 2014 by Judy

Ever since I discovered that ruth, meaning compassionate or merciful, was an antonym for ruthless as well as a woman’s name I’ve been on the lookout for other words with little-known or rarely-used roots. As it turns out, there are quite a number of words with the prefix dis that have little or an obsolete relationship to their roots. To use the current slang version of the prefix, they have been dissed.

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Predominately predominates

January 13, 2014 by Judy

In Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northrup writes about his wife’s mixed blood ethnicity, “It is difficult to tell whether the red, white, or black predominates.”

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Word of the Week – limelight

January 8, 2014 by Judy

Awards season is about to begin. The Golden Globes airs Sunday. The NFL crowns a champion in a few weeks, and in March we get the Oscars. All these events put folks in the spotlight.

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Can We All Just Agree?

January 6, 2014 by Judy

I think we can all agree that subjects and verbs need to agree with one another.

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Have a lollapalooza new year

January 1, 2014 by Judy

It’s a new year and a re-start on my Word of the Week posts. Why not start off with a neologism—a made-up word. One that I hope characterizes the year ahead: lollapalooza.

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