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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 Education, Humanity, Humour, Language on Dec 16th, 2009
I think that people are sometimes snobbish about language. For me, words and phrases are like clothes in a wardrobe. In terms of linguistic benefits, there are at least two possible results of having an education: you have more clothes in your wardrobe to choose from; and you may choose your garments with [...]
Posted in Creativity, Humanity, Language, Relationships on Apr 27th, 2009
What has to happen for you to feel really loved?
Think back for a moment as to how love was expressed in the family that you grew up in. If your parents wanted to show love to you or to family members, or to each other, what did they do?
In my family, love didn’t particularly involve [...]
Posted in Human Rights, Isolation, Psychology, Relationships, Religion, Therapy on Aug 26th, 2007
Thefindings emergingfrom all the social-psychological research on couples is showing that two behaviours in particular are extremely destructive in a relationship. When these behaviours are present they sit there like two of the horsemen of the apocalypse. Their breath stinks, and you suspect that unless a miraculous changetakes place, something badwill appear just around 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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