My friends at Custom-Writing have gathered 28 the most common ‘boring’ words and selected a number of alternatives you can use instead.
Those alternatives could make your spoken and written conversations way more varied and exciting.
You can find all of this goodness in the infographic below:
Via: https://custom-writing.org/assignment-writing-services#boring-words
As social networking is predominately text driven, it is a good idea to make sure your writing is up to an acceptable and readable standard.
There’s nothing worse than reading a tweet, Facebook, Google+ or blog post that is full of errors. It gives an impression to the reader that you are either careless, or worse, a bit stupid.
So, to help you make a better impression on the few million people that may be reading you, (yes, daunting isn’t it?) and improve your writing, here are a few tips you might want to consider:
1. Always check that your verb agree with the subject. I hates this mistake with a passion.
2. Almost every comptupter has a speelchekker, so use it. Yoo could even use teh auto-tect correction for commun errors.
3. Typos involving small common words like that and than, it and is, and there and their are easy to make. Check before you hit the send button. Better to be safe that sorry.
4. One mistake that irks me is the incorrect use of capitalisation. i just cringe when i see this error.
4. When you use numbered bullets, make sure they are sequential.
6. Check your formatting in blog post as errors are not always obvious.
7. USE OF SHOUTING CAPITALS WILL OFFEND READERS, SO DON’T USE THEM. Except for unavoidable acronyms. LOL
8. There are some who think; oddly enough, that punctuation – commas, colons and em dashes, are a sign: or symbolic, of high intellect. In fact, the opposite is true and you stand a good chance of looking like a real fool.
9. I dislike sentences that always start with I. I hate it in fact. I stop reading instantly. I would advise against it. I really would.
10. Reading long passages of text on the Internet; whether it be on a computer, laptop or mobile phone is very tiring on a reader’s eyes so you should be careful not to ramble on with long sentences and un-paragraphed passages of text that are neither informative nor interesting as you will lose your reader very quickly as they will become bored and stop reading your diatribe quicker than you can say Jack Robinson, so don’t just keep typing ad infinitum about your pet subject in long and badly punctuated sentences that keep waffling on without ever coming to the point that was probably your intention to begin with, but you forgot about once you got started and decided to add one extra point in your sentence that should have included a relative pronoun but you got lazy and just used a random comma and kept on typing. Phew!
11. Be sure that your title is a relevant and accurate summary of your article.
So there you go – I hope this post clearly makes the point. And if you got to this part without noticing anything wrong, I suggest you go back and re-read it – there are a mountain of glaring errors that any writer worth his salt should have picked up on. For most of you though, this should be a fun exercise. Just make sure you can see my point through your tears of laughter!
Via: http://www.justpublishingadvice.com/10-tips-tricks-to-improve-your-writing
This is a feature containing obscure words, surprising etymologies and bizarre linguistic facts. If you are a word-buff you will find this really interesting. So, without further a do, here are 100 random facts about the English language, English words, and English etymology:
1. Bumblebees were nicknamed foggy-toddlers in 18th century England.
2. Pupaphobia is the fear of dolls and puppets.
3. Cowards have been called chickens since the 14th century.
4. A monepic sentence is one that contains a single word.
5. The distance between your thumb and the opposite side of your hand when it’s extended is called the shaftment.
6. In 16th century English, twirk (spelled with an E, not an I) meant “to twist the hairs of a moustache.”
7. The word creosote literally means “flesh-preserver.”
8. The feeling of calmness or contentedness that follows a pleasant dream is called euneirophrenia.
9. The word comet comes from a Greek word meaning “long-haired star.”
10. To dismantle originally meant “to remove a cloak.”
11. In its earliest known written record, the English alphabet had 29 letters.
12. Cluck-and-grunt was 1930s slang for ham and eggs.
13. An anepronym is a trade name that has come to be used generally in the language, like Kleenex, Jacuzzi or hoover.
14. In Elizabethan English, a clap of thunder was nicknamed a rounce-robble-hobble.
15. The word trampoline derives from an Italian word for a pair of stilts.
Read the other 85 here: http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6272224
Never, ever, ever underestimate the power your words can have. Take July 4th, for instance. In America, they call this Independence Day because it marks the beginning of our freedom. And it’s a testament to the power of words.
Read more here: https://goinswriter.com/revolutionary-words
I began collecting Authorisms – words, phrases or names created by a writer – more than a decade ago using a number of resources to determine the actual author of a given instance. Most of my word sleuthing took place in the Library of Congress where I consulted many printed and electronic sources. William Shakespeare whose written vocabulary consisted of 17, 245 words included hundreds of authorisms. Some of them, true nonce words, never went further than their appearance in his plays, but others – like bump, hurry, critical, and road — are essential parts of our standard vocabulary today. With many other examples to choose from here are my 10 favourites…
Via https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/nov/19/top-10-words-invented-writers-authorisms
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