English is a confusing language. Simple words can have opposite meanings or different implications. It all depends on the context. Here’s some examples …
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Quote: Stephen King
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard[…]
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15 Polite Ways to Say Someone is Stupid
The lights are on, but no one’s home. If his brain was dynamite there wouldn’t be enough to blow his[…]
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What the FAQ?
There’s and old saying that the computing industry is confusing mass of TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms) and ETLAs (Extended Three-Letter Acronyms[…]
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Over-excited Puddings and Other Odd Origins
Whether you’re miffed, waffling, ticket-boo or taking the Mickey, the English language is full of words with odd derivations. Just don’t pop your clogs before reading this…
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A Short List of Short Novels
According to Dean Wesley Smith, the 80,000 word (or longer) novel was an invention of Big Publishing. A typical novel[…]
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Free Books!
A couple of my books have been selected by American author Mike Wells as part of his Mysteries & Thrillers[…]
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Harry Potter and the End of Chapter 3
Earlier this week, J K Rowling posted this on Twitter: Quite coincidentally, a couple of days earlier I’d just started[…]
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The danger of a single story
A fascinating TED talk from Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie … Some of her books: You’ll find another TED talk from[…]
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Hypnotist hypnotises himself
Book review Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don’t Matter by Scott Adams (My rating: click here.) The[…]
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