Comments on: high jinks http://www.bitful.com/2007/11/13/high-jinks/ UK-based weblog on technology, queerness, language and fitness Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:07:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: bitful http://www.bitful.com/2007/11/13/high-jinks/#comment-10143 bitful Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:56:43 +0000 http://www.bitful.com/2007/11/13/high-jinks/#comment-10143 I know, sorry ;-) i'm a right pain in teh proverbials when it comes to language(s). Close friends never fail to take revenge when i get the odd wrong word in English. I can never remember, for instance, that 'barrier' does NOT rhyme with 'frontier'.,.. And the other day I was reading a review of Spirit and had to look up 'warble' and 'bleating' but I knew what 'soporific' meant ;-)) I know, sorry ;-) i'm a right pain in teh proverbials when it comes to language(s). Close friends never fail to take revenge when i get the odd wrong word in English.

I can never remember, for instance, that 'barrier' does NOT rhyme with 'frontier'.,..

And the other day I was reading a review of Spirit and had to look up 'warble' and 'bleating' but I knew what 'soporific' meant ;-))

]]> By: mike http://www.bitful.com/2007/11/13/high-jinks/#comment-10142 mike Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:56:22 +0000 http://www.bitful.com/2007/11/13/high-jinks/#comment-10142 Ouch! Ouch!

]]> By: bitful http://www.bitful.com/2007/11/13/high-jinks/#comment-10067 bitful Wed, 14 Nov 2007 05:56:52 +0000 http://www.bitful.com/2007/11/13/high-jinks/#comment-10067 I'd seen freerice.com a short while ago, and I cannot remember what level I got to (tentimillion?) before getting bored: I'm bilingual French/Italian, remember? So all those fancy shmancy words like genuflect, and diurnal, and avulsion, and adroit, or napery? Everyday words to me and millions of others. I'd seen freerice.com a short while ago, and I cannot remember what level I got to (tentimillion?) before getting bored: I'm bilingual French/Italian, remember? So all those fancy shmancy words like genuflect, and diurnal, and avulsion, and adroit, or napery? Everyday words to me and millions of others.

]]> By: mike http://www.bitful.com/2007/11/13/high-jinks/#comment-10033 mike Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:36:53 +0000 http://www.bitful.com/2007/11/13/high-jinks/#comment-10033 Hey, Mister Increase Your Word Power: I think this might be right up your street: http://www.freerice.com/index.php (I got as high as Level 48 before dropping back.) Hey, Mister Increase Your Word Power: I think this might be right up your street:

http://www.freerice.com/index.php

(I got as high as Level 48 before dropping back.)

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