New to Fifteen Blinks? Find out more information here. Diction In the Introduction to Fifteen Blinks, I mentioned that people blink less frequently when they are interested. The difference between engaging writing and dull writing is diction—voice—how the words sound in your head and out loud. Let’s get all multimedia up here and use video … Continue reading Fifteen Blinks #1—Diction
A few years ago, Dr. Robert Beard compiled a list of the 100 funniest words he had come across in nearly a decade of daily vocabulary emails he would send to hundreds of thousands of people. Here’s the list of his 100 funniest English words. I’ve always been a fan of brouhaha, canoodle, doozy, flibbertigibbet, … Continue reading 100 Funniest Words
Here for a school assignment? Click here for citations you can use. Best of luck! Diction = word choice Synonym = a word’s twin in meaning, e.g. “big” and “large” are synonyms. Ever wonder why English has so many synonyms? Because it’s the lovechild of Germanic and French languages. (French isn’t called a romance language … Continue reading Diction: Latinate versus Anglo-Saxon
