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EXERCISE: Word potion number nine?
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mbarker.livejournal.comAll right, let's try this one.
Pick a number from one to nine. That's right, pick it now.
Got it? 1-9, almost as many fingers as you have.
Okay, now visit http://us.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/09/13/awful.words/index.html on a browser near you. You'll find a little article about 9 words and where they came from.
Take your word, and consider using it in an article, story, poem, or whatever. You might even like to use the tale of the derivation, although that is optional.
Just in case the article disappears, here's the list of words:
Pick a number from one to nine. That's right, pick it now.
Got it? 1-9, almost as many fingers as you have.
Okay, now visit http://us.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/09/13/awful.words/index.html on a browser near you. You'll find a little article about 9 words and where they came from.
Take your word, and consider using it in an article, story, poem, or whatever. You might even like to use the tale of the derivation, although that is optional.
Just in case the article disappears, here's the list of words:
1. dunceGo ahead and make a joke -- how about a limerick? What rhymes with boycott anyway? Let the words rattle around and put a few down. It'll help to start the morning off.
2. Mickey as in slipping someone a Mickey
3. Spoonerism
4. Lynch as in lynch law and lynching
5. Shrapnel
6. Draconian
7. Boycott
8. Tawdry
9. Chauvinism
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