#07 – 2011
delighting in all things communication,
2-minute touchpoints courtesy of wordsmith, Sandy Ross ♦ London, ON
Nana Grammar's (encore)
12 Days of Christmas
On the 12 days of Christmas, my wordsmith gave to me:
12 (+2) literary devices — allegory, alliteration, allusion, analogy, assonance, climax, foreshadowing, hyperbole, metaphor, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, personification, pun, simile
... and don't bet your sugar plums that Nana won't have pun with assonance
11 letters in 'homepreneur' — this wordsmith's endearment for her niche network of SOHOs
10 as numeric — in sentences, write numbers above 10 as figures: as 11 (not eleven), 12, 13...
9 alphabetic — write numbers below 10 as words, usually: nine, eight, seven...
8 parts of speech — noun, pronoun, adjective, verb, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection
7 dialects in Canadian English — Newfoundland, Maritime (Cape Breton, Lunenburg), West/Central (Northern Ontario, Quebec, Ottawa Valley, Pacific Northwest)
6 writing genres — epic, tragedy, comedy, novel, short story, creative non-fiction
5 vowels from Vanna — a, e, i, o, u... sometimes y
4 syllables in 'get your Word's Worth'
3 in a string with commas — for three or more items (as in 'red, white, and blue'); grammarian, Strunk, bids us to remember that comma just before 'and'
2 spellings for humour (humor)
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