The Devowelizer plugin for WordPress replaces the vowels in most “bad language” within your own content and within comments left by visitors. Example: dámn, whørë, and šlût. It even comes preconfigured with over 75 bìtçhìn’ patterns of words to look for (sorry about that!!) Trust me, this plugin and its predecessor have been well tested!
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Most people probably remember that homonyms are words that have the same sound and spelling but have different meaning (”fair” means reasonable and also refers to a carnival). However, heteronyms — which I certainly don’t remember being covered in English 101 — also differ in pronunciation.
Heteronyms are sometimes used in puzzles. Yesterday I noticed a [...]
I tried Googlewhacking today. Sounds a bit kinky, doesn’t it?
Thanks to my bestest buddy who sends me weird and funny emails all the time (unlike ol’ boring bonehead me!), I know now what Googlewhacking is.
Go to Google. Search for any two words, but not words surrounded by quotes. If you get only one website in [...]
Did you ever notice how screwed up the English language really is? At first it seems so straightforward, but the endless list of exceptions makes it one of the most (if not THE most) complicated language in the world to learn.
Let’s start simply with the letter “A”. In school children are taught about both the [...]
According to the NPR radio news show I listened to on the way to work this morning, Pakistan and India “traded words” yesterday, each blaming the other for the current conflict between the two countries.
How does one “trade words” exactly?
Pakistan: I have the word “terrorists”. It’s in good condition, although it’s been withstanding some abuse [...]
A homonym is a word that sounds exactly like another word and shares the same spelling, yet it means something different. Ready for some English language silliness?
