Category Archives: language

biz name?

30 Monday Apr 2007

Posted by in culture, language, miscellany, sevilla, teaching, work

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Need a catchy name for new translation/teaching website.

As some of you may know, Nog and I just finished a rather lucrative translation & correction job for a medical journal and so we thought it would be a good idea to incorporate this into our present teaching work.

The idea is to set up a website that combines what we offer in terms of English classes (for all levels), including special full and half-day intensive weekend courses, with this latest translation/editing/correction service.

But neither of us can think of a great name for this. Any ideas?

wordsmith

27 Friday Apr 2007

Posted by in books & writing, language, miscellany

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Have you ever heard of Wordsmith?

Wordsmith.org is a worldwide online community of some half-million readers who share a love for words, wordplay, language, and literature. They hail from Australia to Zimbabwe and almost all other places in between.

One of my favourite services that they offer is A.Word.A.Day, which sends you a new word every day by email, along with background information and also a daily quotation. Usually the words for the week are chosen around a theme. This week’s theme was rather cool: words having vowels aeiou once and only once, and in order. Which include the following:

  • abstemious
  • caesious
  • anemious
  • facetious
  • annelidous

Can you think of any others?