A Reference to Treasure Island
—That I don’t recognize. The comments revealed it to me. I’m guessing we have a guessable email address of a Treasure Island character. What’s your opinion?
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A Sign of Linguistic Change
This comic has to be at least 60 years old. First panel—actually, “she” is correct, but nobody says it that way anymore. With a form of “to be,” you have a predicate nominative, so “she.” But it’s where direct objects go in sentences with action verbs, and “her” is what people hear most of the […]
History in Six Versions of the Alphabet
More historical versions of our alphabet exist, but this is a nice picture of six of them. That site has a lot of interesting charts, usually not free.
Rhyming Humor
No lesson today, just some excessive rhyming.
Pun and Vocabulary Lesson
Last panel: You know that the pun is on the word “corn.” What’s a kern? Kerning is adjusting the space between letters so they look like the right amount of space is between them. Unlike what typewriters did. Look at AWA and MNM. If you put a vertical straightedge between the letters, you can see […]
