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  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: V Is For The Villanelle Of The Villainous Villain L

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: V Is For The Villanelle Of The Villainous Villain L

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    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22361 – 825: Here’s the haps: My dear fans, friends, fiends, foes, foundlings, frolicking freaks, and other nice assorted people, I went looking back to find the post where I tried my hand at writing a poem in the villanelle form. Some of you have been with me…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: T Is For Talk Like Shakespeare Day

    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…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: S Is For SHM-Reduplication

    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…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: E is for Epically Awesome, Dude And Other Phrases That I Literally Dislike

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: E is for Epically Awesome, Dude And Other Phrases That I Literally Dislike

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    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22341 – 807: Here’s the haps: There are some words and phrases which have figuratively been used to death. Epic and Awesome are two words that are just so abused anymore that they really don’t have any meaning. When I heard this snippet of conversation, “Dude! It was…

  • Special Bonus Post – trouble at participle headquarters — Wrong Hands Comic

    Special Bonus Post – trouble at participle headquarters — Wrong Hands Comic

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    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22157 – 726:

  • Who’s To Blame For Herb’s Poetry Habit

    Who’s To Blame For Herb’s Poetry Habit

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    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22138 – 709: As you may or may not recall I have at times fancied myself something of a poet. I think some of my stuff is okay while some of it is mind-rotted drivel of the lowest sort. And some in between. I have read books…

  • English Pronunciation

    English Pronunciation

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    Before I start this post I just want to extend my condolences to Lydia and her family. Let’s remember to pray for them. I have a few different items in the works. A couple of stories and a couple of more serious pieces but I don’t want to rush them.…

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