On Maundy Thursday—the day before we learned we were pregnant with twins—Doug and I went to the evening service at our church.
Our pastor began his meditation by mentioning that the word Maundy comes from the Latin mandate. Though you pronounce it like it’s Spanish—mon-DAH-tay—when you see it written you realize right away what it [...]
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Next month is NaNoWriMo. (That’s National Novel Writing Month for those of you who aren’t novelists.)
The purpose of NaNoWriMo is to provide a forum for accountability and encouragement for would-be novelists to actually crank out their brain child.
The goal of NaNoWriMo is for each registered writer to write 50,000 words in 30 days. That’s 1,667 [...]
On Tuesday, I talked about stops. Today we’ll focus on the promised nasals, sibilants, and liquids. (And you thought you left all this behind after English 101!)
Nasals—n, m, ng—are sounded in the nose. Say inning, and you’ll see what I mean. You can feel the n and ng sounds at the top of the back [...]