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Month: April 2016

  • Six Words: Rainbow!

    Six Words: Rainbow!

    How many colors in a rainbow? Six! What? Doesn’t “everybody know” there are seven? No, but seven is what most of us were taught: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. That’s how I learned them in school. We even were taught to remember them using the name ROY G BIV. Too bad it…

  • What’s Your Favorite Color?

    What’s Your Favorite Color?

    What’s your favorite color? Why do you like it? Mine is blue. It soothes me. Not that blue is the only color I like. Red excites me – especially those deep maroon shades. In winter, I crave the deep lush green of midsummer. There really aren’t many colors I don’t like. But always I come…

  • Two Words: Were / Where

    Has anyone else noticed a recent uptick in the frequency with which people misspell “where” as “were”? That is, leaving out the “h”? Resulting in written sentences like “I wonder were I left my car keys?” I’ve seen this a lot recently. In emails. In text messages. Even in supposedly well-edited articles in newspapers and…

  • Contribute a Verse (Thanks, Dev!)

    Contribute a Verse (Thanks, Dev!)

    Contribute a verse! That’s the message from my friend and fellow blogger, Dev Samaddar. So I’ll try. (Read on!) But first, some background: Dev’s irked by the hype he’s hearing lately about “being unique” and “developing your own style”. He thinks there’s way too much emphasis on this notion. He challenges it on his website,…

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