Tag: creativity
Create-a-Word Day
Over the past few days, we’ve thought a lot about new words that have been added to English through the years. So that we can make our own contributions (albeit unofficial contributions) to English vocabulary, I hereby decree that today is Create-a-Word Day! I challenge you to caption this photo, including in your caption at least one word that you create. It can be … Read More Create-a-Word Day
Playing with words
If William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, and the general public can invent words, why can’t you? You CAN! I most often notice the need for new words when I’m playing Words With Friends. Of course, my words might never officially be welcomed into the English language or into the pantheon of words accepted in Words With Friends or Scrabble; still, I don’t let that stop … Read More Playing with words
The Graceful Grammarian 