A Few Crooked Words
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The Homonym List
Writing about puns got me thinking about homonyms, which made me think of The Homonym List. My little sister was a math kid. She used to put pictures of the math books she had finished in the photo cover of her school … Continue reading
Posted in Exercises, Language
Tagged children, Education, Homeschooling, homonyms, Language, Seattle, Teaching, Teaching writing, vocabulary, wordplay
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Pretty Beautiful
“It’s so pretty! Wow, it’s so beautiful! Look at that, it’s so pretty! Isn’t it beautiful? Oh, PRETTY!!!” That was me, age ten, hiking with my family at Mt. Rainier. “It’s just so beautiful. Oh wow, it’s so pretty!” This … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Ruminations, Uncategorized
Tagged Education, hiking, Homeschooling, Language, Parenting, Seattle, Teaching writing, vocabulary, Writing
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Ze is awesome: adventures with gender-neutral pronouns
English is missing a word. (Well, probably many words.) However, this is a really useful word: it’s a gender-neutral singular pronoun for people. In the good-old-boy days, they just said “he” but that’s not cool anymore, nor should it be. … Continue reading
Posted in Language
Tagged American culture, Education, gender neutral pronouns, Grammar, Homeschooling, Language, Seattle, teaching poetry, Teaching writing, vocabulary
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I Hominid All Over the Place
So I was teaching my students about the word root of the word human a while back. You guys, it’s really cool. Did you know that the words human, humble, humus, hominid, humility, and humiliate all come from the root … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized, Word Roots
Tagged children, Education, Homeschooling, humor, Language, Seattle, Teaching, Teaching writing, vocabulary, Writing
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