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Thursday, September 24, 2009

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Today is National Punctuation Day.

"A celebration of the lowly comma, correctly used quotes, and other proper uses of periods, semicolons, and the ever-mysterious ellipsis."

How have you shown your appreciation of punctuation today?

1 comment:

kate said...: we cheered for punctuation in my english classes!!; September 28, 2009 at 3:04 AM

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Cool New Vocab Words

I love learning new words. I hope writing them down here will help me remember them and satisfy my desire to share my newest word with everyone.
wyvern - a winged two-legged dragon with a barbed tail
mulct - extract money from someone by fine or taxation; deprive someone of money or possessions by fraudulent means
persiflage - light and slightly contemptuous mockery of banter
anfractuous - sinuous or circuitous
perfervid - intense and impassioned
fulsome - complimentary or flattering to an excessive degree
doyen - the most respected or prominent person in a particular field
apposite - apt in the circumstances or in relation to something
opprobrium - harsh criticism or censure
coterie - a small group of people with shared interests or tastes, esepcially one that is exclusive of other people
thaumaturge - a worker of wonders and performer of miracles; a magician
cynosure - a person or thing that is the center of attention or admiration
patois - the dialect of the common people of a region, differing in various respects from the standard language of the rest of the country
mage - a magician or learned person
samizdat - the clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, esp. formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe
proclitic - a word pronounced with so little emphasis that it is shortened and forms part of the following word, for example you in y'all