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Bathroom Libraries, Scottish War Cries and Language Mutations
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September 4, 2014 by libroshombre

The British writer Holbrook Jackson once said, “Your library is your portrait,” but he was speaking only of people who …
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Category: books, English, language, reading well, trivia | Tags: bathroom, branding, British National Corpus, caffeine, marvelous Merriam-Webster, Schott, Titanic, war cries
Grammar Jokes, German Genders, and Frank Lloyd Wright
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April 10, 2014 by libroshombre

Successful jokes depend greatly upon their recipients. Some listeners recoil at puns while others revel in them. Dante must have …
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Category: architecture, grammar, humor, language, libraries, library design | Tags: frank lloyd wright, german language, grammar, jokes, libraries, North Pole Branch Library, public libraires, puns
Demonyms, Dialects, and the Letter K
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March 27, 2014 by libroshombre

Hillbillies were mentioned in my last column as being synonymous with hicks, rednecks, and Hoosiers, which is “the official demonym …
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Category: alphabet, communications, dialects, language | Tags: communications, demonyms, dialects, k, language

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