I’m trying not to get all aggro, really. I understand that the English language changes all the time. Heck, thanks to presidential candidate Herman Cain, just in the last week we’ve gotten “Cain-wreck” and a new twist on “The Hermanator.” It was a little hard to handle being the last in my family to find [...]
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1. Peeping Tom Lady Godiva was a noblewoman who lived in England in the eleventh century, who began campaigning for a tax reduction. She made an agreement with her husband that he would reduce taxes when she rode naked through the market square. Legend has it that Godiva sent word to the people [...]
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If you are a writer you know how easy it can be to procrastinate. If you are also a blogger you know how important it is to write consistently. As a writer you have learned how to procrastinate with the best of them. This can cause copious amount of guilt if you are a blogger [...]
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I do a lot of online training for bloggers. I spend a fair amount of my time teaching bloggers how to use WordPress as well as teaching them how to best optimize their website for the many search engines. I am no longer surprised to find that some of my clients don’t know what web [...]
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Sophophobia is not the fear of your 15-year-old daughter’s Halloween costume, although that could be frightening for a lot of reasons. Sophophobia is the fear of learning. Personally, I might have a fear of learning what the ladies in the photo are doing near that large (freshly dug?) pit, and why the [...]
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If you’ve ever been wrong about whether a certain word ends in -ible or -able, here are some rules that will help give you the right answers. Rule for words ending in -ible If the root is not a complete word, add -ible. For example: aud + ible = audible Examples: visible horrible terrible possible edible eligible incredible permissible [...]
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When do you use a hyphen? The following rules cover the most common uses of hyphenation. 1. Use a hyphen to connect two or more words used together as an adjective before a noun. Eliza Norman is not yet a well-known candidate. 2. Do not use a hyphen when the compound adjective comes [...]
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Have you been thinking lately that you could you use a few new ideas for your blog? How about 500 great ideas for your blog? You don’t have to think of them yourself. Take a look at these tips to give your blog a little boost. 50 Can’t-Fail Techniques for Finding Great Blog Topics by [...]
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