Becca Wells Editorial

10/08/2016

You got me!

10/06/2016

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08/06/2016

This is very exciting news! I've always hated feeling 'talked out of' reading a book because it didn't get good ratings. I hope this is as good as it sounds.

Offering an alternative to Amazon ratings, Literary Hub will aggregate professional book reviews.

29/03/2016

For all my 'home' slices...this is pretty cool, eh? And for the nerdier lot of you, it's part of a broader project throughout March 2016, ‘Hollywood is a Verb: Los Angeles Tackles the Oxford English Dictionary’.

The Oxford English Dictionary has worked with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Public Library to look at words in the Oxford Engli

24/03/2016

Have any of you picked up a phrase from another culture?

March 23, 2016 by Lucy Ferriss Good on Us Like others in this forum, I try to keep abreast of changes in idiom over time. We notice the emergence of vocal fry, the increasing acceptance of singular they, and so on. But for the most part, our observations are those of the disinterested listener. We m…

14/03/2016

For all of those nay-sayers, it does actually make sense! (Most of the time. Some would even go as far as saying 80-90% of the time).

March 10, 2016 by Anne Curzan Order and Chaos in English Spelling “But here’s the thing,” wrote David Shariatmadari in The Guardian a couple of weeks ago. “English orthography makes no sense.” No sense? I know it is exaggeration for the sake of humor (no quibble there), but I’ve decided to use it as…

10/03/2016

The Trumpiverse: a place where Donny creates a dictionary of his own terms.

March 7, 2016 by Allan Metcalf The Trumptionary Nine months ago, Donald Trump brought forth on this continent a new model for attaining the U.S. presidency, one that focused on statements so outrageous, and thereby so delicious for journalists, that he would be sure to make the top headlines day aft…

08/03/2016

It's International Women's Day today. Here's how the world is celebrating.

Think marches, tweets and traffic lights

07/03/2016

This is right up my alley. And I do prefer the term 'collector' instead of 'hoarder'. Anyone else a collector?

Let's just call it "book collecting."

05/03/2016

A little bit of insight into what I do in my spare time.

An insider's guide to volunteering in the SfEP social media teams.