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Immaculate What???

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382106) • Rockingham, Australia 20 Dec 16

Early tomorrow we head off for the airport to fly to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to spend Christmas with our son. This will be my last post till well after Christmas as we'll be away four nights and I don't think I'll be able...

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Big Words

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382106) • Rockingham, Australia 20 Dec 16

I have a brochure put out by a local person which is full of grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and misuse of words. I've just edited this as I had quoted incorrectly. She talks about 'concurring' with your horse and wants to...

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My latest big word - paraprosdokian

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382106) • Rockingham, Australia 8 Sep 16

I like words. I like the way some sound, the way some look. I like big words – as long as I can pronounce them. My latest big word took a bit of learning but I think I have it now – paraprosdokian. Isn't that a beauty? Now maybe...

figure of speech

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Is English a Hard Language to Learn?

NailTech @NailTech (6874) • United States 13 Jan 13

I mean we have different meanings for our words in English. I can give a few examples right off the bat. Phrases too like the one I just said about a bat. A bat can be an animal or a item used in playing baseball. Then we have the...

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Baffled with Big Word's Pronunciation?

rekhum @rekhum (2420) • India 26 May 12

What do you do when you come across a big word or a word which you have not heard of or have never used it in your day to day communication. Do you try to pronounce it the way it should sound or do you refer your dictionary to...

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How hard do you work for money?

TheGreatWhiteBuffalo @TheGreatWhiteBuffalo (4822) • United States 19 Sep 09

Is the most coveted of all the money we work for the United States Dollar? Have you considered what the stimulus package equally divided would give to each individual if divided in such a manner? Let me see, 750...

thinking critically

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Big words

Trace86 @Trace86 (5030) • United States 21 Jun 09

I have made a new resolve today to try to improve and maintain my vocabulary. I am going to try from now on to use at least one of what my father called 10 cent words everyday in a mylot discussion. So far today I have used...

expanding vocabulary

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Why do some people think that using 'big' words makes them clever?

dorypanda @dorypanda (1601) 28 May 08

Fair enough it makes them sound clever, but if they know big words but can't tie their own shoe laces then why would we think they're clever? I've had e-mails with those type of people and conversations with them too, the way they...

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

drrahul44 @drrahul44 (1152) • India 1 Dec 06

truely..aceeptable..what do u think

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