by Sue Horner | Aug 3, 2012 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
It’s a long weekend in Ontario, so let’s lead into it with some Friday word fun! Creative haikus about traffic (thanks to Sue Ridewood for the link). Example appropriate to Ontario holiday weekend traffic: “Need a few days off / after Sunday night...
by Sue Horner | Jun 1, 2012 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Just had a quick look through the spam holding pen (thank goodness for Akismet, defender against comment spam, which has prevented 78,569 messages from getting through!). There, amid the hundreds of links to pharmaceutical products and replica watches and such, were...
by Sue Horner | May 18, 2012 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
It’s Friday, and it’s the start of a long weekend (at least here in Canada). Seems like the perfect time for some word fun! Is it a piece of IKEA furniture or a type of cheese? An amusing quiz from Mental Floss. Thou wayward rump-fed malt-worm! Have some...
by Sue Horner | Jan 6, 2012 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
TGIF! Time for a few minutes of seemingly mindless fun, with a secret learning component (thanks to Merriam-Webster and Oxford Dictionaries): Don’t you want to find out How Strong is your Vocabulary? (This replaces one that’s no longer available, sadly:...
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by Sue Horner | Nov 18, 2011 | The Red Jacket Diaries blog
Hey, it’s Friday. Time for some silly fun with words! Play Hangman with Oxford English Dictionary. No surprise, expect tricky words. Play Oxford Fortune Cookie on Twitter by tweeting “I want to play OxfordFortuneCookie with @OUPAcademic” and a number...
