-
Recent Posts
- What Exactly is Imagery?
- The Writing Sampler
- Classics Don’t Qualify as Comps
- Dealing with Painful Critiques
- The Power of Laughter
- Scoring Your Sense of Humor
- Why Do We Read Emotions?
- Distinguishing types of laughter
- Why Not AI?
- The Price of Staying Connected
- The Physiology of Love and Fear
- What Catches My Attention in a Book?
Archives
Meta
- Follow Write about what? on WordPress.com
Tag Archives: pronunciation
Names and Xenophobia
Imagine a reviewer whose major complaint with a fantasy book manuscript was the number of times that words weren’t recognized by MS Word spell check. This person even provided me with the total–all names of people and places within the … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged Characters, Fantasy, grammar, historical, language, names, novel, pronunciation, spell-checker, Writing
Leave a comment
Who Knows Correct English?
How we speak has been determined by history, especially the history of empires. When the Anglo-Saxons came to the British Isles their germanic brand of “English” overwhelmed the Celtic language of the Britons, and the older tongue was considered the … Continue reading
Posted in Generational differences, languages, Literature
Tagged english, language, languages, pronunciation, travel
2 Comments
Write about what? 