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A Walk in the Words

http://www.walkinthewords.blogspot.com

A humorous and educational look at the sounds, words and meanings of the English language.

• Added on: Dec 12th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: laura payne
• Listed in: Education & Learning Humor
• Tags: humor language linguistics words definitions semantics

Recent Posts

• Linguistics Christmas Humor

  Posted on Monday December 21st, 2009 at 04:41 in humor, jokes, christmas, syntax

  What do you call Santa's helpers? VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV Subordinate Clauses. ...

• Linguistics Cartoon Favorites - Diagramming Sentences

  Posted on Friday December 18th, 2009 at 05:51 in humor, cartoons, linguistics, syntax, sentence diagrams, syntactic trees

  Why no one diagrams sentences anymore. ...

• Where Was the Girl? - Sentence Ambiguity Diagrammed

  Posted on Wednesday December 16th, 2009 at 05:45 in ambiguity, syntactic trees

  Harry ordered a drink for the girl at the bar.The girl at the bar is the one Harry ordered the drink for.Harry ordered a drink, at the bar, for the girl (the girl sitting at a table? the girl in the bathroom? the girl across the street?). Syntax real...

• The Glenlivit Syntax Tree

  Posted on Monday December 14th, 2009 at 04:27 in syntax, glenlivit, syntactic trees

  Instead of the traditional Christmas tree for the holidays, it looks to me like Glenlivit is giving away syntax trees in their new ad campaign. While it is not an accurate syntax tree, can you see why this ad immediately brought to mind syntax trees?...

• Apostrophe Errors Part 2 - Ladie\'s Room

  Posted on Saturday December 12th, 2009 at 16:43 in punctuation, morphology, plural forms, apostrophe errors, restroom signage

  The sign for the women's restroom at one of our local taverns is a plaque that reads "women", unfortunately, a holiday wreath is covering the regular sign so the sign pictured below has been placed on the door temporarily. I have stopped having a bee...

• Linguistics Cartoon Favorites - Dependent Clauses

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 05:18 in humor, cartoons, linguistics, dependent clauses

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laura payne

Makes learning fun.

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