Showing posts with label words. Show all posts
Showing posts with label words. Show all posts

February 1, 2011

What a difference an e makes.

Envelope: countable noun. A flat container, usually made of paper or plastic, often sealed with glue or wax, used to mail letters or small objects. Jack put fifty cents in an envelope and placed it beside his son's bed in exchange for the tooth under the pillow.

Envelop: transitive verb. To surround completely; to overwhelm. Maria's favourite time of day was dusk, as she waited for the darkness to envelop the neighbourhood.

August 1, 2008

I miss George Carlin.


"In your own words. You hear it in classrooms. And courtrooms. They'll say, 'Tell us in your own words...'

Do you have your own words? Personally, I'm using the ones everybody else has been using.

Next time they tell you to say something in your own words, say, 'Nigflot blorny quando floon.'

— George Carlin

Of course, if you do indeed say "Nigflot blorny quando floon," you'l be using George Carlin's words. Not your own. But you get the picture.