tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909082640346689518.post7658461916847012115..comments2024-03-14T19:16:55.990-05:00Comments on Retirement Daze: Observations in a new yearLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08369350929348290480noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909082640346689518.post-38699309414384064232014-01-16T14:19:09.897-06:002014-01-16T14:19:09.897-06:00PS...I just thought of the other words that drive ...PS...I just thought of the other words that drive me crazy when people write to and too and two.photowannabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11760961275666768173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909082640346689518.post-40902579397382592952014-01-16T14:18:06.767-06:002014-01-16T14:18:06.767-06:00I am such a poor speller but I do have fits over c...I am such a poor speller but I do have fits over common misspellings of things like there and their, then and than and even peak and peek.<br />This is a terrific post and I have now learned a new word.<br />Have a wonderful day Linda.photowannabehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11760961275666768173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909082640346689518.post-21796230298952309382014-01-15T11:52:50.354-06:002014-01-15T11:52:50.354-06:00You ought to be a comments writer in a Sunday supp...You ought to be a comments writer in a Sunday supplement or paper! I am so glad you write for us in your blog though. <br />Blessings from Dalamory<br />www.freda.org.ukFredahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12112672598946758847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909082640346689518.post-53927672498798438502014-01-14T11:02:31.874-06:002014-01-14T11:02:31.874-06:00Just delightful digressions. What fun to read thi...Just delightful digressions. What fun to read this piece. There's another big office piece at the Smithsonian....one of those round typewriter erasers with a brush. Love this one too.Magehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17333086721654817750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909082640346689518.post-47882822091585757792014-01-14T08:45:33.905-06:002014-01-14T08:45:33.905-06:00In high school, I used to read Webster's Dicti...In high school, I used to read Webster's Dictionary for fun. I think that is what boosted my verbal scores to 98% and 99% on the National Merit Exam. Lol. Big deal, ha! Love this post, as I love words.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909082640346689518.post-32903665793052722102014-01-13T20:28:17.340-06:002014-01-13T20:28:17.340-06:00Very interesting. I do get quite upset with Kindl...Very interesting. I do get quite upset with Kindle because of all the mistakes in the books I read. I find myself marking them. It's the English teacher in me. I can't help myself.<br /><br /> I make many typos when I write blogs and make comments on blogs. In my typing, and thinking as I type, I also make more mistakes than I wish I would. I need to be a better editor. It seems I'm always submitting 'rough' drafts to be published, so I shouldn't be so critical of others. Sally Wesselyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06470453773515491625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909082640346689518.post-8047038844508912052014-01-13T15:42:48.620-06:002014-01-13T15:42:48.620-06:00If you don't watch Bill O'Reilly on Fox, y...If you don't watch Bill O'Reilly on Fox, you might enjoy him (or the last 5 minutes of his show). A former English teacher in a Catholic boys school, he is invested in saving old English words from extinction, and always has a 'word of the day'. Love this post and I will now divagate out of here. DianneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-909082640346689518.post-9100487446055778262014-01-13T14:36:35.887-06:002014-01-13T14:36:35.887-06:00well this could have been written by E-ODD me...i ...well this could have been written by E-ODD me...i love the vocabulary sight, and have now saved it in my favorites.. never heard of homophone or divagations and also in southern speak, peeked, peaked and piqued do not sound alike because i say piqued as peeged <br />who write all this stuff and who wrote the first one... <br />i have noticed in Kindle there is a lot of spelling phonetically <br />If i get this right, divagation is when we digress to fool people in order they don't know what we are talking about. this said I guess Congress and the Senate are experts at divagational speaking. See i just made up a new word using the new word you taught me. by the way, the red squiggle under the new word had no idea how to spell it.MadSnapperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08163140037276496519noreply@blogger.com