Category: English or Language
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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: 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…
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Special Bonus Post – trouble at participle headquarters — Wrong Hands Comic
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22157 – 726:
