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Increasing Your Vocabulary

Posted on March 3, 2016 by Mary Beth Frezon

Read the NYTimes, learn the occasional new word: Continue reading →

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For the Quote Box – English usage

Posted on October 25, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street. — E.B. White

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On the way to snibbles

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

Not technically snibbles, but I just like that word. Snibbles is (in common tongue)… Continue reading →

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Words — For the Quote Box

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking. — John Maynard Keynes Continue reading →

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Found On the Way to Someplace Else

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

whelm |(h)welm| verb [with obj.] archaic or literary engulf, submerge, or bury (someone or something): a swimmer whelmed in a raging storm. • [no obj.] flow or heap up abundantly: the brook whelmed up from its source. noun archaic or … Continue reading →

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