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Category: Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: Zee or Zed, Let’s Put This Thing To Bed

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: Zee or Zed, Let’s Put This Thing To Bed

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22727 – 976 Here’s the haps: “It’s a good thing we won that Revolutionary War or we’d all be speaking English today.” Americans are almost the only ones to end the alphabet by pronouncing the last letter, “zee.” The rest of the English-speaking world says, “zed.” Apparently, the…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: Y is for You, Youse, You Guys, Youse Guys, You All, Y’all, and All Y’all, et al.

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: Y is for You, Youse, You Guys, Youse Guys, You All, Y’all, and All Y’all, et al.

    , Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22726 – 975 Here’s the haps: I know I probably missed a few but these few colloquialisms in the title are meant to indicate that I have a widely varied audience, not just in the U.S. but in other countries, as well. You. You are important to…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: X is for Ten

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: X is for Ten

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22725 – 974 Here’s the haps: I had a feeling the letter X was going to be difficult and it started out that way. Okay, so I looked up xylophone, which I expected would be pretty common because when we are teaching children the alphabet that’s what represents…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: W is for Writers’ Cafes

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: W is for Writers’ Cafes

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22724 – 973 Here’s the haps: The other day when I was visiting Brother’s Campfire there was a guest post there, by Cassa Bassa of Flicker of Thoughts blog, called Community. She had written a six-sentence story, also called Community, on her own blog and it was about…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: V is Violin for Art Vegan‽

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: V is Violin for Art Vegan‽

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22723 – 972 Here’s the haps: <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> If you want more about our friend, Art Vegan, click here. Also, I think I may have missed some of your comments and I apologize. I appreciate comments and try to respond but my schedule has been somewhat overwhelming. <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Art…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: U is, in fact, for Ubiquitous

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: U is, in fact, for Ubiquitous

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22722 – 971 Here’s the haps: This is one of my favorite words, but alas, unlike that overused, misused, abused and ubiquitous adjective, “awesome,” ubiquitous is not found commonly used by a lot of people. This is a shame. It is a good, fun word with a solid…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: T is for Timeout or, Perhaps, Talk Like Shakespeare

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: T is for Timeout or, Perhaps, Talk Like Shakespeare

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22720 – 970 Here’s the haps: Hi Everyone. Sorry, no post tonight. I’m taking tonight off and will pick back up on Monday with the ever-ubiquitous, U. But well, it being (as is commonly reported) Shakespeare’s birthday/deathday and it also being Talk Like Shakespeare Day, well, okay, here…

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