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Posted in Business, Creativity, Education, Technology, iPhone, iPhone 3G on Aug 1st, 2010
I am sitting in Caffè Nero trying to test out a new iPhone app - SpellChecker.
It has its own dictionary that it refers to as you type. However, it can also access a range of other iPhone dictionaries. I have mine linked to the very impressive (but expensive) Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Once you have [...]
Posted in Art, Creativity, Education, Humanity, Language, Literature, Poems, Society on Nov 27th, 2008
Poetry, like prostitution, has been around for thousands of year (though I’d be willing to bet that prostitution was probably there first). And both will continue for thousands more, despite the best efforts of zealots to promote it (as in the case of poetry) or stop it (as in the case of prostitution). However, whereas the [...]
Why is ‘island’ spelled with an ’s’?
No, this isn’t a joke question. It’s not like: “Why does ‘bath’ have a silent ‘p’?” It is a question that did used to worry me. I would often be asked it. I taught Englishin the UK for a number of years to school children, college students, and undergraduates, [...]
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