Author: Herb
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: T Is For Talk Like Shakespeare Day
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22358 – 822: Here’s the haps: I usually say something about Shakespeare on the twenty-third of April every year. It is, as best as anybody can tell, the day he was both born and died, 1564 – 1616. This year I am more aware than ever of the…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: S Is For SHM-Reduplication
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22357 – 821: Here’s the haps: Aah, haps shmaps. Reduplication shmeduplication. So what? Who cares? I originally got interested in this because I was at someone’s blog and saw that an apostrophe appeared misplaced, although after re-reading the piece I realized it was my brain that had been…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: Q Is For Quotations
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22355 – 819: Here’s the haps: Many of you read this blog on the WordPress reader and never visit the actual blog itself. That’s cool, but I have a couple of things on the main page of the blog that I am proud of and/or really like. One…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: P Is For Personality Cults
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22354 – 818: Here’s the haps: As many of you are aware, there are certain authors I really, really like. I mean really. There are other authors I really like and still many more that I just like. There are some I don’t like. Celebrities, I think, are…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: O Is For Onomatopoeia (Oh Brother!)
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22352 – 817: Here’s the haps: Order of operations, octopus, orange, orangutan, onomatopoeia, outside, okay, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, origami, original, opulent, octagon, Oh bother, Ottowa, Oconomowoc, oh brother, oh boy, oy vey iz mir! Today’s letter, if you have been on track the whole month so far (As…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: N Is For Neighbors Nibbling
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22351 – 816: Here’s the haps: You may recall, especially if you’ve been around here long enough, that for being a suburb we have a lot of wildlife in our area. We have been visited in our neighborhood (either on our property or on our street within a…