Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 We all know that language changes over time. Words come into a lexicon because of new inventions or processes and other words leave, becoming obsolete, as objects and customs disappear. Word usage also changes to facilitate pronunciation or to move from an irregular to a regular formation. For example we rarely, if
I laughed the first time I read the letters TLDR, which mean “too long, didn’t read.” It’s a text or twitter phrase, which not so politely tells you your communication was too long. Alas, we live in an abbreviated world. We like short quick blasts of information, preferably of the more exciting kind – dare
……..this iconic cottage chair was originally known as the Westport plank chair and was designed by Thomas Lee in 1903. As the story goes, Lee showed the design to a local carpenter, Harry Bunnell, who in need of some winter revenue, secured a patent for the chair and started manufacturing it, en masse in 1905.
I have to catch up on a few posts in the blog-a-day challenge for 2013, so I hope that you don’t mind the travelogue. Yesterday I posted about starting a two-day mini vacation in Muskoka, a cottage area about 2+ hours’ drive from Toronto. We decided on this “impromptu” weekend away mainly, because our bathroom was
I haven’t posted in a a few days because my husband and I went away for the weekend. Since we weren’t going to have a functioning bathroom until Monday, we decided that we had to make other plans. This all began last January, well before the tiles started to fall off the wall in the
I always like those crazy celebration days and I think that the site Holidayinsights.com has one of the best lists. According to the site, September 28 is “ask a stupid question day.” Now I have asked many stupid questions over the years and some of the greatest thinkers in the world have asked what seemed like
I have to believe that you may be defined by the fairy tales that you have read, either to yourself or to your children. I always read “The Little Red Hen” to my kids. It’s a story of Russian origin with strong entrepreneurial, even capitalist overtones. I’m not really the “Donald Trump” of mothers, but
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The province of Quebec in Canada has proposed a law banning all obvious religious symbols in the form of jewellery and clothing for people working in government jobs, i.e. civil servants. This provincial bill would contravene our national statutes for freedom of religion, which operate at the federal level. But then Quebec has rarely considered
I enjoyed Tabitha Southey’s column the other day in the Globe and Mail – Beavers don’t Kill People. It was a humorous take on the efforts to curb the use of guns in the US. Her idea was – suppose you looked at something as sacred in Canada, as the right to bear arms is,
