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Fun Fridays – October 7, 2022

By Steve Laubeon October 7, 2022
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Weird English Language Quirks

What is another word for “thesaurus”?

Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly, or peccable?

If a book about failure doesn’t sell, is it a success?

Did you know that “verb” is a noun?

If there are typos in a dictionary, how would you know?

A novelist once wrote, “He sat with his head in his hands and his eyes on the floor.” [Think about that for a second.]

Why isn’t phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

Have you experienced requited love?

Why is the word “abbreviation” so long?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

If two mouses are mice and two louses are lice, why aren’t two houses hice?

Is there another word for a synonym?

Have you ever said, “The present is a good time to present the present”?

Shouldn’t there be a shorter word for “monosyllabic”?

Why can’t you make another word using all the letters in “anagram”?

Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing?

Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

Why do people use the word “irregardless”?

How is it that something can burn up, burn down, and burn out?

We say something is out of whack. What is a whack?

While weird, the English language can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

Pony and bologna rhyme. Cough, rough, though, and through do not.

Laid is pronounced like paid but not said. And said is pronounced like bread.

Bead is pronounced like lead but not lead.

Ewe were bread to rite it write, it is a heeling for the sole.
Listen, it is only right that you dew it write.
Eye wood dew it write, butt I due knot wont two.

 

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Fun Fridays – September 30, 2022

By Steve Laubeon September 30, 2022
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You are the canine in this story. You’ve spent years working to master your genre only to find three newbies, who aren’t even trained, setting up residence in YOUR genre! What do you do? Protest. Demonstrate your displeasure to your writing community. Huff and puff. Realize there is plenty of room and you don’t own the genre. It’s okay to share. Anybody relate?

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Fun Fridays – September 23, 2022

By Steve Laubeon September 23, 2022
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In a movie, after endless rehearsals and multiple takes, you see the perfect scene. Today’s video contrasts that with reality. Hilarious results! Writing lesson? Enough reality in your writing so the reader doesn’t end their suspension of disbelief with a “Huh? That can’t happen that way.” Enjoy!

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Fun Fridays – September 16, 2022

By Steve Laubeon September 16, 2022
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This fellow has close to a billion views of his various piano videos! Goes by the name of Lord Vinheteiro. He does have an eerie look when staring at the camera; but it’s on purpose. Today he does bits from what he claims are the top ten most difficult piano pieces to play. The liner notes say: “They are hard to play because they are fast songs, with left-handed jumps, polyrhythms, …

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Fun Fridays – September 9, 2022

By Steve Laubeon September 9, 2022
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Today’s video just has to put a smile on your face. Good Mornin’!

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Fun Fridays – September 2, 2022

By Steve Laubeon September 2, 2022
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Tomorrow is International Bacon Day! Celebrate the bacon! A few years ago, there was a fun online thread with creative people replacing movie titles or book titles with the word bacon. For example: The Lion, the Witch, and the Bacon Pretty in Bacon Harry Potter and the Goblet of Bacon Eat, Bacon, Love The Lord of the Bacon So I thought, “Why not apply the same to bestselling Christian …

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Fun Fridays – August 26, 2022

By Steve Laubeon August 26, 2022
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You may not enjoy this video as much as I do. The reason is that I played basketball in high school and was able to dunk. In addition, I had the fun of going to State as a high jumper. But this video is highest-level stuff (pun intended). When I see things like this I’m stunned at the sheer athleticism. Metaphor? You may be good, but there will always be someone better based on certain …

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Fun Fridays – August 19, 2022

By Steve Laubeon August 19, 2022
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When professionals take a moment to have fun, we can enjoy the spectacle. See what I mean with today’s video of a doubles match held at Wimbledon earlier this summer. Is there a writing metaphor here somewhere? Add your ideas in the comments below. (If you cannot see the embedded video in your newsletter email, please click the headline and go directly to our site to view it.)

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Fun Fridays – August 12, 2022

By Steve Laubeon August 12, 2022
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World’s fastest typist. Watch this lady type 185 words a minute and the awe of the students. Put it this way. Stella Pajunas in 1946 set, and still holds, the world record for typing at 216 words per minute. The average person types around 40 words per minute. (See the infographic on this page.) My high-school typing teacher could do 80 wpm on a manual typewriter, the kind I learned on. If …

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Fun Fridays – August 5, 2022

By Steve Laubeon August 5, 2022
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I may have shown today’s video to you before, but it still thrills me to watch it again. This young prodigy is given four random notes, drawn from a hat, and improvises an entire piece in about a minute. Amazing. Can you, as a writer, take four words and improvise a story in one minute? “See the ball bounce.” Now go write something beautiful!

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