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You can speak Italian

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Backwards Talking Girl

Alyssa, from Oklahoma, can take any word she hears and say it backwards.  She appeared on the Today Show yesterday. 

She says that when she hears a word she sees it spelled out in her head forwards and backwards.  She said when she learned to read she learned both ways so she’s [...]

The B word

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Word As Image

Challenge: Create an image out of a word, using only the letters in the word itself.

Rule: Use only the graphic elements of the letters without adding outside parts.

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Grammar Matters

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A Language Tongue Twister

Read it out loud.

“Billet does not rhyme with ballet,Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.Blood and flood are not like food,Nor is mould like should and would.Viscous, viscount, load and broad,Toward, to forward, to reward.And your pronunciation’s OKWhen you correctly say croquet,Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,Friend and fiend, alive and live.”

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I speak 3 languages…

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Words we still use that now make no sense

Writer Ken Levine wrote a piece on words and expressions we use in everyday speech that have since outlived their meaning but we still use anyway. Here are a few examples.

The tube Phone “lines” “Dial “ a phone “Don’t touch that dial” Kodak Moments Pen Pals Records Please be kind “Rewind” “Hang [...]

10 Words in English that don’t exist…but should

1. AQUADEXTROUS (ak wa deks’trus) adj. Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub tap on and off with your toes.

2. CARPERPETUATION (kar’pur pet u a shun) n. The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining [...]

UP

This  two-letter word in English has more meanings than any other two-letter  word, and that word is ‘UP‘. It is listed in the dictionary as an [adv], [prep], [adj], [n] or [v].  It’s  easy to understand UP  ,  meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in  the [...]