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Letter to the OED
...Dear Oxford English Dictionary editors, Please consider the following words for inclusion in your next edition: Amazone - the addictive, ensnaring vortex of shopping online. "She's......
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©
John Watt
Categories:
oxford english dictionary,
words,
Form:
List
Anglophone Aficionado Exudes Infatuation With English Language Number 1
...Versus me (chilling as an outsize ego freezer) profusely perspiring and heavily panting experiencing one after another stuff whet dreams are made frolicking in autumn mist (think Maxfield P......
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©
Matthew Harris
Categories:
oxford english dictionary,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
My Poetic Dilemma In Fits and Starts
...My dilemma is this I am not , never a poet Could try my level best to pose for one but in all credibility not seriously pass myself off as one neither profess to claim or be an artist even ......
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©
Christopher Flaherty
Categories:
oxford english dictionary,
allegory, slam,
Form:
Free verse
The Oxford English Dictionary
...The Buddhists say: "If you used a raft to cross the river, there is no need to drag it along further". Oh, my good old dictionary! You're my raft in the great water of English language. Alas, we'll a......
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©
Kurt Ravidas
Categories:
oxford english dictionary,
language,
Form:
Haibun
Tattarrattat- a Palindrome
...Tattarrattat …amazing how things change over time, from a simple knock at someone’s door, smoke signals, walking & serenading to the Pony Express, and now Cell Phones…what next, microchi......
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Winged Warrior
Categories:
oxford english dictionary,
community, culture, relationship,
Form:
Free verse
Innocent Omission of a Lower Case M
...Top notch legal scholar Erin Go Braw (less concerned about being fair versus abominable, irrevocable, and execrable unforgivable oversight most holy "M" & nonce) cabinet of high ......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
oxford english dictionary,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
The Word
...In the beginning was the word Before that, no noun, no thing Then no sound was ever heard And no passing bell would ring So therefore no adjective was needed to describe it or deplore it No pr......
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Geoffrey Brewer
Categories:
oxford english dictionary,
humor, language, philosophy, words,
Form:
Rhyme
Ou Allons Nous: Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal's Where Are We Going By T Wignesan
...Où allons nous? Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Where are we going” by T. Wignesan Ils sont venus dans une petite ville Une bande à moitié nue soumise silencieuse Tout ce qui restait de......
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T Wignesan
Categories:
oxford english dictionary,
discrimination, grief, horror, prejudice,
Form:
Free verse
Pennies From Heaven
...The hands of twilight amble through glazed clouds Soothing my emptiness, a heart’s debris, Although one longtime wish rattles aloud Warm is the breeze that flutes in symphony. Soothing my ......
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Nette Onclaud
Categories:
oxford english dictionary,
life, uplifting, heaven, heaven,
Form:
Pantoum
Word Set
...Never has there been a word With more meanings, I have learned Than this trinity of letters That set so nice when together The Oxford English Dictionary set down 62 columns, so worthy Which w......
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Paula Swanson
Categories:
oxford english dictionary,
funny, on writing and
Form:
Quatrain