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The Word Den: Thing To Be Today: ebullient.
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Sally Prue's word blog. This blog is for everyone who uses words. The ordinary-sized words are for everyone, but the big ones. Are especially for children. Tuesday, 11 August 2015. Thing To Be Today: ebullient. No, it's all right, luckily this is nothing to do with being a bully, it's to do with boiling. A good cup of tea needs to be made with ebullient. Water; an ebulliometer. Works out the boiling-point of liquids. The water in which you cook your potatoes must undergo a process of ebullition -. But, h...
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The Word Den: Saturday Rave: not entirely serious. Catherine Winkworth
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Sally Prue's word blog. This blog is for everyone who uses words. The ordinary-sized words are for everyone, but the big ones. Are especially for children. Saturday, 1 August 2015. Saturday Rave: not entirely serious. Catherine Winkworth. Was a respectable, learned, Victorian lady, a keen promoter of women's rights and a translator of German texts. What she's best known for translating are hymns:. What the Almighty can do. If with his love he befriend thee. Is one of hers. Is Latin for I have sinned.
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The Word Den: Spot the frippet: filoselle.
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Sally Prue's word blog. This blog is for everyone who uses words. The ordinary-sized words are for everyone, but the big ones. Are especially for children. Monday, 10 August 2015. Spot the frippet: filoselle. It's amazing what a difference a few letters can make. Yesterday's monstrous word, filose, for instance,. With the simple addition of a three more letters into the dancing and joyous. Is a soft silk thread used especially for embroidery. This is from Japan. Spot the frippet: filoselle. Yes, shed mak...
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The Word Den: Thing Not To Be Today If You Can Possibly Avoid It: cynical.
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Sally Prue's word blog. This blog is for everyone who uses words. The ordinary-sized words are for everyone, but the big ones. Are especially for children. Tuesday, 4 August 2015. Thing Not To Be Today If You Can Possibly Avoid It: cynical. Is that Miss Sally? At this point the heart sinks. This person with the shaky knowledge of English forms of address will be phoning to sell me something I don't want - and, let's face it, even if I did. Want it I most definitely wouldn't buy it from him. Subscribe to:...
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The Word Den: Sunday Rest: filose. Word Not To Use Today.
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Sally Prue's word blog. This blog is for everyone who uses words. The ordinary-sized words are for everyone, but the big ones. Are especially for children. Sunday, 9 August 2015. Sunday Rest: filose. Word Not To Use Today. You say this word FI-. Lohss, to rhyme with.well, nothing I can think of at the moment. Or you can pronounce it FI. Lohzz, but obviously that's even worse. Is a term used in biology describing something that looks like, or possesses, a thread or thread-like object. Welcome to Scribble ...
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The Word Den: Socially aware: a rant
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Sally Prue's word blog. This blog is for everyone who uses words. The ordinary-sized words are for everyone, but the big ones. Are especially for children. Thursday, 13 August 2015. Socially aware: a rant. Ms Pugh is a social worker who's been working on a very sad case which involves two little girls taken from their parents by Social Services. A friend of the family has offered to look after the children, but Ms Pugh's belief is that the children would be best off adopted. How could any unqualified per...
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The Word Den: Word To Use Today: knickerbocker.
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Sally Prue's word blog. This blog is for everyone who uses words. The ordinary-sized words are for everyone, but the big ones. Are especially for children. Friday, 14 August 2015. Word To Use Today: knickerbocker. In Britain, a knickerblocker. Means only one thing: a Knickerblocker Glory. Is a layered cream, ice cream, meringue and fruit pudding served in a tall glass with, luckily, a tall spoon:. I was intrigued, but in the end prudence prevailed and I chose something else. History of New York. The Brit...
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The Word Den: June 2015
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Sally Prue's word blog. This blog is for everyone who uses words. The ordinary-sized words are for everyone, but the big ones. Are especially for children. Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Thing Not To Do Today: scoff. You, write a blog? Does anyone ever read it? It makes you look like a fairy elephant. You're only up to level eighty-six? You don't have to be clever to scoff. You don't have to be clever to be unkind and contemptuous. How horrible it must be to harbour such a desire for cruelty. That sort of scoff.
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The Word Den: Word To Use Today: millwallisation
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Sally Prue's word blog. This blog is for everyone who uses words. The ordinary-sized words are for everyone, but the big ones. Are especially for children. Friday, 7 August 2015. Word To Use Today: millwallisation. Yes, yes, all right, Millwallisation. Is a rather horrid word. Yes, it does sound like some process for making brick into concrete, or books into coal. But it contains the word Millwall. And so it's earned a place in my heart. And what does Millwall sing? Ah, this is where Millwallisation.