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Whenever I hear a word that I’m unsure about, I like to find out as much as I can about it, make up sentences in my mind and then try to explain it to others. After looking up the word exponential at lunchtime, I have been playing around with it in my head and the best way that … Continue reading
Being Valentine’s day yesterday I thought I would dedicate this blog to words meaning love. It also seemed appropriate because I had a lovely surprise waiting for me when I got home from work yesterday – my partner and our two girls had prepared me a fantastic four-course meal. On the table were hearts, candles, … Continue reading
I have used this word a few times recently so thought that it was about time I looked up the exact definition and found out if it should have a hyphen or not. The free dictionary.com shows it with a hyphen ‘there-in’ and they define this adverb as follows: In that place, time, or thing. In that … Continue reading
I am not much of a television watcher myself, and often find it a waste of my time (unless it’s a ‘feel good’ film or romantic comedy!). On the other hand, my partner loves watching films and from the many he records, we occasionally find one that we can watch together. Having a few hours … Continue reading
Complement and compliment can be used as either nouns or verbs. On Wikipedia, the word compliment is defined as “An expression of praise, congratulation or encouragement”. It is not to be confused with complement which means “to complete, to bring to perfection, to make whole” (source: Wiktionary.org). Notice how the following two sentences are different: … Continue reading
Do you write down your thoughts when feeling stressed or angry? Not only can this process make you feel better, but when you read your notes back you may find gold nuggets of inspiration which can be used in a writing piece to help others too. Stressful and difficult situations can influence you into writing … Continue reading
I was going to write the words ‘shock horror’ in my blog yesterday but hesitated as I didn’t know if it was hyphenated, separated by a comma or just two separate words. The Cambridge dictionary defines it as “an expression used when you are pretending to feel very shocked by a piece of news” and shows … Continue reading
Have you ever revisited one of your own blog posts and even though you know that you read it through several times before posting it, you find a mistake – only a teeny-weeny one, but a mistake nevertheless? Alternatively, it may get pointed out by ‘Mr Smug’. So, apart from the obvious things like using spellchecker or going back … Continue reading
I had to revisit one of my previous notes today: Note 237 – Do you lay or lie on the settee? to check the past tense of the word lay which is laid and NOT layed, for example, ‘I laid the information out concisely’. I felt like it was an important point to note that there is no … Continue reading
I like the sound of the word synonymous, but have never used it in a sentence before (although I have written about synonyms). Dictionary.com define it as ‘equivalent in meaning’ or ‘expressing or implying the same idea’. Synonymous is in the top ten percent of words looked up in the Merriam-Webster dictionaries and their definitions of this 17th century word are: having the … Continue reading
My Writing Notebook 