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What’s in a name, grrrl?

Hymn book? Her book?

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Cartoon showing woman asking booksller for her-books, as opposed to hymn-books from Library of Congress

Ovester? Semester?

Legally Blonde Ovester

Enid (from Legally Blonde): So I'm petitioning to have next term be referred to as the winter "ovester".

Potaytohs? Potahtohs?

What’s behind a name and why after all these years are we still having discussions about nomenclature as it pertains to gender integration—especially in the most rapidly evolving arena in our society, technology?

Damned if I know. Although it might just unleash my inner riot grrrl.

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Perfect Vacation

It’s only Tuesday and yet I feel incredibly tempted to fly off with my imagination to some far off exotic land.

**sigh**

T-minus a few days until the weekend and its limitless potential for bookworming. Meanwhile here’s a nice little image to sustain you courtesy of the Library of Congress. Enjoy!

Dead Sea Book Floating

Bookworming it...at sea!

p.s. check out other imagesĀ here!

Great Scot!

For all the lovely technological advances of our era, it still seems that part of the globe is at a disadvantage because of a linguistic barrier.

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Take the the most recent example: the fancy schmancy new iPhone.*

Check out the ruckus after the jump.

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Synthetic Phonetics

Recent studies have shown that children that text have better literacy skills.

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How’s that for a surprise?
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Word Geekery: Name that (Non-)Norman

From the BBC: The Normans

The Normans were innovators in various things: culture, military tactics, architecture, funny pointy helmets with nose protectors…

In short, they were the ones that turned the Anglo-Saxon way of life upside down.

And it weren’t for them, we would have a bunch of children in the English-speaking world running around with some heavy names: boys with names like Aethelred and girls with names like Sunngifu or Eoforhild. [1]

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Do We All Write Alike?

I think I’ve officially become one of those out-of-the-loop people. It’s only natural that after college and almost a year of not interacting with a large group of young people, watching TV more than 3 days a week or being constantly on Facebook, I don’t know what’s going on with the “young” people.

It’s alright, though. I’ve discovered that the rest of the world is only a few days behind the cool kids.

Keep that in mind when I tell you about my “amazing” discovery: I Write Like.

Apparently it became a big trend online.

For those of you who already who heard of this feel free to roll your eyes long enough for me to explain it to the rest.

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Review: Northanger Crappy?

Northanger Abbey

Random House UK, 2008

ISBN: 978-0099511878

Pages: 288

Reading Time: 3 days

Deya’s Tagline: It was just my imagination running away with me.

Cover: I absolutely adore Vintage Classics’ interpretation of a Jane Austen cover. Usually, publishing houses find Regency painting of a pretty, but distressed girl to put on the cover or some “pretty wilderness” to feature in a baroque frame. I found this approach very fresh and to the point. What’s the book about? Just look at the cover.

Janeites: Rest Easy. I come in peace.

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The Thin Line Between Failure and Success

Losers are winners per J.K. Rowling's Philosophy

According to J.K. Rowling’s Commencement address at Harvard, losers are winners. She recounted the story that we all know: broke single mother writes book and becomes richer than the Queen. There’s a lot more in between but basically that’s the gist of it. She focuses more on the liberating powers of writing.

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