En Words

A place to talk about words - whether from books, stories, magazines, brochures, or matchbook covers.

Monday, September 08, 2008

Winner of Oddest Book Title in 30 Years Announced

I mentioned that the time had come to vote for what you thought was the oddest book title through the Bookseller. The ballots are now in and counted and the winner is ... Greek Rural Postmen and Their Cancellation Numbers.

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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Word Oddities Site

Just a short entry, as I'm trying to prepare for a phhotography workshop I'm to give this afternoon. Here's a site with an odd collection of word oddities. I particularly liked the page with words that could be touch-typed with only one hand, and I'm certainly glad the high school teacher I had in the subject apparently knew nothing of these.

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