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Writing Well: Point Counterpoint: Speeches That Persuade
Point Counterpoint: Speeches That PersuadeWriting WellAll the World's a Stage: Writing SpeechesInformation, Please: Speeches That InformPoint Counterpoint: Speeches That PersuadeLife of the Party:…Brewer's: Nose
Bleeding of the nose Sign of love. “`Did my nose ever bleed when I was in your company?' and, poor wretch, just as she spake this to show her true heart, her nose fell a-bleeding.” —…LSSU's Banished Words of the Year
Every year since 1976, Lake Superior State University has released a “List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness” on New Year's Day. While the…It's All Greek
The following table lists some common Greek roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Greek root Basic meaning Example words -anthrop- human misanthrope, philanthropy, anthropomorphic -chron…Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner
ChristabelThe Ancient Mariner The Latin motto is condensed, by omission, from about a page of Thomas Burnet's Archaeologiae Philosophicae: sive Doctrina Antiqua de Rerum Originibus,…Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin and his fellow Stanford student Larry Page invented the Internet search engine Google. Sergey Brin's parents were Russian immigrants; he was six when the family moved to the United…Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: A Revivalist Revived
167 169 A Revivalist Revived A REVIVALIST who had fallen dead in the pulpit from too violent religious exercise was astonished to wake up in Hades. He promptly sent for the Adversary of Souls and…The Devil's Dictionary: J
by Ambrose Bierce IKJ J is a consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel - than which nothing could be more absurd. Its original form, which has been but slightly modified,…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: A Revivalist Revived
The Fabulist and the Animals The Debaters A Revivalist Revived A REVIVALIST who had fallen dead in the pulpit from too violent religious exercise was astonished to wake up in Hades.…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Terminology: J
by Robert Burns IKJ Jad, a jade. Janwar, January. Jauk, to trifle, to dally. Jauner, gabber. Jauntie, dim. of jaunt. Jaup, splash. Jaw, talk, impudence…Trending
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