Well - that was a nice weekend. Did you enjoy 'the longest day?' Was that you I spotted dancing naked round a bonfire in your back garden - maintaining social distance at all times of course?
So - from longest days to longest words, sentences and novels.
Jun 21, 2020
A recent survey concluded that the most powerful word in the English language is ...
Jun 14, 2020
Ever heard of a ‘Tom Swifty’? Well, it’s a wonderful pun-loving phenomenon. Tom Swift is a fictional character from a series of books by Edward Statemeyer. The puns are based on adverbs or adverbial phrases … and they look like this –
Jun 9, 2020
'The trouble with you', I was cruelly, but possibly accurately, reminded the other day, 'is that you always have to have the last word' ... which got me thinking. There have been some pretty memorable 'last words'. Here's a handful -
Jun 9, 2020
It had to happen. No lover of words can go for long without stumbling across the wit and no-little-wisdom of the great Groucho Marx.
Jun 9, 2020
Hellenomania - a madness for things Greek - and sometimes Roman too. This unfortunate condition most frequently crops up in the world of words.
May 31, 2020
It was National Limerick Day the other day. I can't resist posting the Copywriter's limerick composed by Monica Sharman -
May 23, 2020
Did you read this yesterday? That fine man, Mr. Barak Oabama - someone I will always look up to for so many reasons - it seems he has a flaw.
Read what he came out with only yesterday -
May 10, 2020
Here's a little something to help while away those self-isolation hours.
My family have been playing this for years. It's a simple word game.
Well, what do you expect? Words are my life and many would say I'm simple!
You can play this at home but it also works using Zoom or other conferencing platforms.
Mar 31, 2020
