by Kevin Burton When I travel to foreign lands such as Mexico or Mississippi, I bring back souvenirs. I’m sure you do too in your travels. Some of the souvenirs we bring back are words and phrases. Today we look at some favorites from the Merriam Webster dictionary. Their list is of words …
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Idioms Are Words To Live By, Carefully
by Kevin Burton I try to be thoughtful and practical when buying things for my wife. I have to admit though, one of my Christmas presents for her sucks. It’s a handheld vacuum to clean the car interior and small places in the house. Sucks, get it? Vacuum sucks? Well OK, …
Learning The Language Of Heaven
by Kevin Burton It’s great fun to translate words and phrases into Spanish and then back into English. Sometimes the result makes me laugh, sometimes it makes me think. In Spanish you ask “How old are you?” by saying, “Cuantos anos tienes?” Translated back into English it means “How many years do you …
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