Linguistically Speaking

Verbing weirds language - but it also funs it!

A curvaceous young phoneme called schwa
Said "I never feel strong. It's bizarre!
I'm retired and meek
And I always sound weak
But in frequency counts - I'm the star!"

love this!

To study the staging of an "Ugly Duckling to Beautiful Swan" transformation:

Susan Boyle in "Britain's Got Talent"
(Embedding unfortunately disabled)

(Again, works with students, too)

"The mill-wright on my right thinks it right that some conventional rite should symbolize the right of every man to write as he pleases" (Lashley, 1951).

Retouchiertes Titelbild,

eindrücklich und schultauglich.

Can you spot the celebrity?
Imagine the Bundesrat doing this - especially the holding hands part! ;-)

I give you now Professor Twist,
A conscientious scientist,
Trustees exclaimed, "He never bungles!"
And sent him off to distant jungles.
Camped on a tropic riverside,
One day he missed his loving bride.
She had, the guide informed him later,
Been eaten by an alligator.
Professor Twist could not but smile.
"You mean," he said, "a crocodile."

-- Ogden Nash

Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.

-- Ogden Nash