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Gracehopers and Ants in the library
This morning, one of my young students made a very strange request: she brought me a book with a simple version of the story of Snow White a...
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Disclaimer: My terms are borrowed (by way of Terry Boardman and Bruce Charlton) from Rudolf Steiner, but I cannot claim to be using them in ... -
Following up on the idea that the pecked are no longer alone in their bodies , reader Ben Pratt has brought to my attention these remarks by... -
I’ve been sailing all my life now Never harbor or port have I known The wide universe is the ocean I travel And the earth is my blue boat ho...
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Yes, they do seem like 'Backslang' (as we called it).
And then there is the (supposedly) longest real word in English - Antidisestablishmentarianismway. It too seems like backslang.
Although kids prefer Upercalifragilisticexpialidociousway - the word was, allegedly, invented just to be long.
(Fairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochllanway is not, of course, in English.)
I don't know, Bruce, some of those alleged "words" really make me underway.
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