I had always learned the colors of the light spectrum as Roy G Biv (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet). I learned today that there are other ways to keep it straight.
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I had always learned the colors of the light spectrum as Roy G Biv (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet). I learned today that there are other ways to keep it straight.
No way :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by andtckrtoo
How?:confused::D:rolleyes::o:cool:
See - that is what I am talking about bannana!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Aint Doody
You know what makes me laugh is how something you learned that you found trivial sticks with you. When I was in college I took editing and writing from this professor with a reputation of being a pain in the butt however I really loved the old man (he was in his 80's in 2001-2003 when I had him). His sense of humor just made sense, I loved his lectures and the work wasn't bad. I ended up taking editing, one writing and one history of Journalism class with him.
So a couple things from Dr. Starr really stuck like what a Serif and Sans Serif font is, how palatino is a visually appealing font to him (which I now use for work by choice :p) and how you should use the exclamation point unless you want the sentence to be read as a scream. I can't help using the exclamation but I always blush and remember him reading someone's work yelling every sentence they used an exclamation on. He would be ashamed at my lack of proper punctuation and laziness on proof reading for this board. :o
It's only been within the last 10 years that I learned that "miniscule" and "minuscule" are both proper spellings. I'd thought it was only the latter.
And I've always liked Palatino, too. It was my font of choice when I was self-employed.
Funny you should ask...Quote:
Originally Posted by Flybye
The book I finished this morning contained the following mnemonic for the colors of the rainbow:
Rowntree's
Of
York
Give
Best
In
Value
The author is from York and lived in Edinburgh at the time of publication, so I'm sure that memory device has more relevance for those residing "across the pond", but I love a good coincidence. :)
Did you know there's a discombobulation room at the Cincinatti (if my memory serves me right) Airport? We (ian & i )didn't even know the word existed until it was mentioned on the ABC's "word watch"