John, Taylor-Hood, a friend of mine, recently posted some place names in Atlantic Canada comparing interesting pronunciations versus spellings of local placenames, and asked about other strange or interesting cases. I had a few minutes of fun doing this (Newfoundland has an amazing variety of names that are interesting for many reasons) and [...]
Archive for February, 2007
Missing Names
Posted in Canada, Human Rights, Personal Stuff, aborigines, america, history, labrador, memory, province on February 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The He(X) Files
Posted in Humour (English), Ridiculous, Television, humour, series TV on February 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I recently rented the first few seasons of the X-files when I was sick. It was one of the more interesting series on TV, and had a fairly fanatical following. Personally I enjoyed some of the episodes while others left me cold. But usually the plotting and the writing were solid, without too many bloopers, [...]
There’s Always Something New To Learn
Posted in bicycles, equality, hypothermia, ice, music, truxton on February 12, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Apologies in advance.
New Word: Callipygous
If you don’t get it from the cartoon, here’s the definition.
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