For all you language-o-philes out there (especially scrabble players and the like) here are three updates from the Oxford English Dictionary listing words they added to the dictionary during the last year. (Guess which words my proofreader didn’t recognise when finalising this post.) 12 September 2013 Examples: campsite, n. weself, pron. 13 June 2013 Examples: …
At their OZWords blog, the Australian National Dictionary Centre are featuring some of the words and phrases that have been submitted to their Word Box, an online portal which invites the submission of newly minted terms. Among this batch are ‘awks’, ‘whatevs’ and ‘captain’s pick’, which I have run into, and others with which I …
Another example of the distinctive turns of dialogue that Aaron Sorkin puts in the mouths of his characters. Again and again.
Thoughts on the difference between being a Christian who creates and Christian creativity by Jeffrey Overstreet at The Rabbit Room. It’s helpful you find yourself considering a book, movie or music and wondering ‘Is it Christian?’ Something that has stayed with me is this quote from Katherine Pearson, which Overstreet uses in his essay. Novelists …
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