Susurration. I always enjoy encountering a word that I’ve never read or heard before. Susurration. Lexico.com provides this meaning: Whispering or rustling. ‘the susurration of the river’ ‘It settled to the ground with a soft susurration like stirring leaves.’ ‘Something beautiful but so far away-like the music of a faraway violin or the susurration of …
For those who are still communicating with words rather than emojis or memes, this Mental Floss article borrows from Lifehacker and provides some tips regarding the use of the subjective ‘who’ or the objective ‘whom’ in sentences. The article starts out by observing that the words are not interchangeable: In casual messages with friends or …
It’s time for the Australian National Dictionary Center to release their ‘Word Of The Year’ for 2018. This usually involves trawling the backwaters of social media to locate a phrase no one’s ever heard of. No doubt you hear last year’s winner ‘Kwaussie’ – ‘kiwi(New Zealander)-aussie’ in general usage on a daily basis. 2018’s winner …
William Goldman, author both the book and movie versions of The Princess Bride has died. You may also remember him from such other movie screenplays as Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and All The President’s Men, among others. I want to say his death is ‘inconcievable,’ but perhaps that word doesn’t mean what I …
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