Category: English or Language
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Anagrams & A Birthday Shoutout
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 23449 – 1206 Here’s the haps: 41 years ago today my son was born and the human adventure we call life got a lot more interesting. He’s a good man who puts God and Family first and I’m very proud of him. He’s also a good writer when…
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Wring In The New
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 223028 – 1074 Here’s the haps: I cannot imagine being a learner of English. What a tedious, impossible(‽) task. What have I wrought in my writing? Was it all for naught or was it rot or wrought? I was fraught with excitement at the idea of being taught…
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“Feelin’ Froggy? Then Eat A Live Frog,” Mark Twain?
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22851 – 995 Here’s the haps: I was visiting someone’s blog a while ago and they quoted Mark Twain as saying, “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs,…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: Zee or Zed, Let’s Put This Thing To Bed
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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…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: T is for Timeout or, Perhaps, Talk Like Shakespeare
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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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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: E Is For Easy
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22705 – 954 Here’s the haps: I wanted to do an easy post for today because I don’t have much time. So, I’ve decided it would be a piece of cake to take the easy way out. I mean, it’s almost summertime when the living is easy. It…
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Enunciate When You Pronunciate!
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22626 – 934 Here’s the haps: <><><><><><><><> I have several readers who are non-native English speakers and several others what don’t talk good American but speak English, instead. Canada, The UK, Australia, New Zealand all have quirks of their own. “Can you imagine if we had lost the…
