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Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (11252)
• United Kingdom
24 Feb
So, as some of MyLotter friends know I just love a quiz show.
And I have found a new one….its on series two so I’m not sure how I missed it before, except it’s not on one of the main channels.
Anyway it’s called ‘ Celebrity...
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Judy Evans
@JudyEv (381741)
• Rockingham, Australia
11 Feb
The photo is a random one from my collection but was taken by Vince.
There seems to be words to describe every little thing. One I came across yesterday was ‘tittle’. This is the name given to the dot on the letters ‘i’ and ‘j’....
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (112717)
• United States
25 Aug
I remember back in my early days of writing, which I started doing when I was 8 years old for whatever reason, that at some point I found a magazine called Writer's Digest and finally convinced my parents to get me a subscription...
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luisadannointed
@luisadannointed (11842)
• Philippines
9 Aug
One of my sister said when we were in highschool, that words' meaning in dictionary cannot be change nor you cannot add new words... but as the world goes bythe young people keep adding new words and add different meaning to the...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (112717)
• United States
4 Aug
It is fun, and funny to me, sometimes, because we are all, often times, worlds apart, and so we sometimes call the same things different things—and sometimes it can be confusing even if we mostly know what someone is referring...
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Traceyjayne
@Traceyjayne (11252)
• United Kingdom
30 Jul
You know how it is , people are talking ….and then suddenly you hear it …..the word you hate !
Sometimes it is a word that brings back bad memories, it may be a word that you can’t say properly, it may just be a word that makes...
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Aparna Sen
@Dreamerby (10111)
• Calcutta, India
8 Apr 25
The ashen wood of the jambs shone in the sunlight filtered by the oak and deodar trees. I was looking through the window of the Pemanyangste monastery at the scenery beyond. A pale bald monk wearing saffron clothing with a walking...
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Anish Asokan
@RevivedWarrior (3853)
• India
19 Jan 25
There are many a times we would get responses for our discussions here at Mylot. Some of these responses could be single sentences or multiple sentences. Sometimes it could be less words or more.
After my first month at Mylot, I...
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celticeagle
@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
13 Jan 25
In 1857 a project began at the Philological Society of London to document the English language. This would be going back to Anglo-Saxon times around 1000 CE which was a lot to cover.
The Oxford English Dictionary that was...
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Jim Bauer
@porwest (112717)
• United States
17 Dec 24
Grammar can be fun. But let's face it. It can also be hard and confusing. For one thing, there's just too many nuances to a lot of it. And then there's the age old argument between whether it's an issue of proper grammar, or...
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Sharon Elton
@sharonelton (30756)
• Lichfield, England
25 Oct 24
The first phrase of interest from the book is:-
pan o'n i'n ifanc
This phrase means in English:- When I was young
So I know that in that section of the book he's talking about when he was young. I don't know what...
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Aparajita Bhattacharjee
@apsmine9 (358)
13 Mar 24
A lot has been written, ever since I've joined MyLot. It has been raining words, through the tip of my fingers on my laptop. Perhaps I wouldn't have been able to write as much if it had been pen and paper.
My love for poems has...
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Fleur
@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
21 Feb 24
It has been reported many times that a lot of people suffer chronic loneliness, and that loneliness is really bad for our health – as bad as smoking, according to some sources. Human interaction is important.
So when I’m out...
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DW Davis
@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
16 Feb 24
I came across this expression today while reading one of the stories in James Buncie's Sydney Chambers and the Perils of the Night. The story was "Unholy Night."
My interest in etymology and the origin of words and phrases...
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Kaz
@KarenAnne (257)
• United Kingdom
16 Feb 24
Just read a life story of someone and, for some reason, the ending sounded really ominous. I'll change the details but the ending was thus:-
"John Smith died at his home in Midsomer, Greenshire, on December 8, 2021, at the age...
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BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
11 Jan 24
If someone's made an appropriate remark, we might say that they've nailed it.
If they keep going on and on about something we might ask them to stop hammering away at it.
But if they keep lumbering on about...
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