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		<title>Have you come across any good collective nouns recently?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While catching up on Schott&#8217;s Vocab, a NYT blog by contributing op-ed columnist, Ben Schott, I noticed this post about &#8220;specific websites that serve a single purpose,&#8221; such as WhatColorIsTheEmpireStateBuilding.com and AbeVigoda.com. I admit I&#8217;m often curious about what the less obvious colors of the Empire State Building represent, so find that site useful when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cynthaqu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9551168&amp;post=65&amp;subd=cynthaqu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<dc:creator>Cynthia Aquila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I happened upon this post: 75 tools, games and links for word lovers (I couldn&#8217;t bring myself to include the word &#8220;awesome&#8221; used in the title.) Of course, I had to explore the list: vocabulary and word sites, dictionaries and thesauri, word and spelling games. I enjoy word games, but if I started clicking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cynthaqu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9551168&amp;post=57&amp;subd=cynthaqu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Flu&#8221; Outbreak</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Aquila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This &#8220;flu&#8221; certainly isn&#8217;t life-threatening or at epidemic proportions. But it&#8217;s one that can make me break out in a cold sweat when I hear it. What is it? The pronounciation of the words affluent, affluence and influence. I&#8217;ve noticed an outbreak in placing the stress on the second syllable &#8212; af-FLU-ent; af-FLU-ence; in-FLU-ence &#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cynthaqu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9551168&amp;post=44&amp;subd=cynthaqu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why this blog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cynthia Aquila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words are my business. I&#8217;m a freelance writer so I need to  skillfully use words to grab and hold a reader&#8217;s interest. No easy task, that. More often than I care to admit, I find myself grasping for a more precise word when I write or grappling with a sentence to make it clearer. Consult [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cynthaqu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9551168&amp;post=5&amp;subd=cynthaqu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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