Good morning, just rediscovered this site after some years. Today’s Homonym Hop Toads are the two bears. No, noth the Three Bears but two.
Bare: nude or naked, also the least as in the bare minimum of funds needed.
bear: a large animal coming in several forms belonging to the family ursus. Also to carry, as in to bear a burden.
Morning all,
Bella Scribner here with this week’s Homonym Hop Toad. What’s that? You may well ask. A homonym Hop Toad is a word that sounds like another word, is spelled differently and means something totally different. If you use a misplaced homonym, it becomes a hop toad, Green, with yellow warts, and makes your reader laugh.
Today’s hop toads are the three sights. Yes, there are three of these. Here are their names and descriptions.
CITE: a verb meaning to give proof orally, or to list facts out loud to prove a point.
SIGHT: A noun that which is seen with the eye, the sense of seeing or something which is seen with the eyes.
SITE: a noun, a place as in the site of a building, or where an event happened. This is also the word that is used to refer to a web site, a place on the Internet.
Now that you’ve been introduced to these threetoads, more like frogs than toads, you will be able to tell the difference between them and use the right one in the right place, and you know what? If you do that, the toad changes magically into a pearl to grace your written words.
Morning all,
Did you know that you can set the weather feature of SAMN to display your local weather whenever you press enter on that choice from the System Access Mobile Network main menu?
To set this option permanently, just tab down to the edit field that is labeled zip code and put your zip code in it. Then tab to make this your local weather and check the checkbox. Voila, you have your local weather anytime you want.
I voted today. Well, that’s not surprising. Everyone who is anyone and who is remotely concerned about what’s going on in the country is voting today. So, what’s the blog about? Why am I taking time to write this blog today? I’m writing this blog because for the first time in thirty-seven years, I voted independently! Yes, folks, for the first time in thirty-seven years, I was able to mark my ballot myself, listen to a machine read me the names of the candidates, and I voted independently and privately for the people I wanted!! I didn’t take anyone into the booth. I didn’t take anyone to read the ballot, I did it myself, all by myself! I’m excited and I’m proud of our country that has made this possible through computer technology.
I hope that all of you will vote today, and that you will all remember that voting is a privilege and an inalienable right. We have fought for this right. Men died at Bunker Hill and Gettysburg and Flanders Fields and Dunkirk to make this possible. Women were jailed and beaten and starved in order to make this possible. African-Americans walked and demonstrated and starved themselves and were beaten and arrested to make this possible. Folks with disabilities wrote letters, talked and talked to legislators, demonstrated and cried and fought on for you to be able to do this. So, folks, vote! I don’t care for whom you vote, just make sure you cast that ballot!
Morning all,
Bella Scribner here with this week’s Homonym Hop Toad. What’s that? You may well ask. A homonym Hop Toad is a word that sounds like another word, is spelled differently and means something totally different. If you use a misplaced homonym, it becomes a hop toad, Green, with yellow warts, and makes your reader laugh.
Today’s hop toads are the Four Rights. You might think that there are only two but there are four. Let me introduce you.
RITE 1: spelled r i t e is a ceremony, usually religious in nature like a wedding or a confirmation or an initiation to a club. I attended the funeral rites for the prime minister. Confirmation in the Christian Church is a rite of passage.
RIGHT 2: spelled r i g h t is the most familiar of these toad speacies. This right is the opposite of wrong and the opposite of left. I’m going the right way this time. Turn to your right to find the auditorium. You are right, you have the correct information.
WRIGHT 3: spelled w r i g h t is a shy beast and usually isn’t seen, but when he makes an appearance, your documents take on an educated, professional flavor. A wright is a craftsman. Someone who makes wheels for wagons is a wheelwright. William Shakespeare was a playwright.
WRITE 4: spelled w r i t e is your old friend, the word you’ve been using to indicate that you’ve put letters onto paper or onto a computer screen. I’m writing this blog. I write this blog every week. She writes to her brother everynight.
Now that you’ve been introduced to these fourtoads, you will be able to tell the difference between them and use the right one in the right place, and you know what? If you do that, the toad changes magically into a pearl to grace your written words.
Morning all,
Bella Scribner here with this week’s Homonym Hop Toad. What’s that? You may well ask. A homonym Hop Toad is a word that sounds like another word, is spelled differently and means something totally different. If you use a misplaced homonym, it becomes a hop toad, Green, with yellow warts, and makes your reader laugh.
Today’s hop toads are the Three Theres. No, not bears, but theres.
There 1, spelled t h e r e, is a place, a preposition, the opposite of here. The book is there. There is a cat running on the lawn. My desk is there.
Their 2: spelled t h e i r. is a possessive pronoun. It refers to something that belongs to a group of people. It is their song. It is their house. Their dog is coming to stay for two weeks.
They’re 3: spelled t h e y ’ r e, is what is referred to in English Teacher circles as a contraction, a word that used to be two words and is made into one by using the apostrophe. They’re 3 stands for ‘they are. They’re coming soon. They’re not on the table, they’re in the closet. They’re going to San Juan next month.
Now that you’ve been introduced to these three toads, you will be able to tell the difference between them and use the right one in the right place, and you know what? If you do that, the toad changes magically into a pearl to grace your written words.
Hello again, folks,
Before I introduce Bella Scribner this weekend, I thought I would share my reasons for becoming an AT Trainer. I figure if you’re going to rely on somebody for advice, you ought to know what motivates that person. So, here is a little story which I hope will explain.
I was born blind, and when I was growing up the only way I could get information was to listen to the TV or the radio, listen as others read newspapers or books, read some few braille books, and listen to talking books. I never got personal correspondence that I could read myself. I can count on one hand the number of letters in braille I received from friends. I was a prisoner in a cage, unable to access much information except for a few things which were given to me. I couldn’t access information myself.
It wasn’t till 1988 that I got my first computer. It was a revelation! I was able to access my own typed material. I was able to access other peoples correspondence to me and write back to them. As the years went on, I gained access to more and more information. In 1997, I purchased Phil Scovell’s etext library which he had compiled from books in the public domain which he had culled from the Net. I spent $125.00 for one hundred floppy disks. I didn’t know what I was buying, really, but I love books. My parents loved books, and I wanted books to read. So, I purchased this library thinking that if I had one hundred books that would be wonderful! I figured purchasing a bunch of classics for $1.26 a piece seemed like a good thing.
Well, the floppies arrived in a huge box, and I opened it up. There they were, my hundred floppies! I plunked the first floppy into the drive and found out that there was a list of the books I had purchased. I opened the file in my editor and started reading. Friends, I had purchased seven hundred and forty books! I couldn’t believe it! I had to stop the computer because I was sobbing, yes, sobbing outright. I had purchased: The Bible, The Koran, all the classic Greek playwrights, Shakespeare, Milton, all the eighteenth century philosophers, Dickens, Twain, Melville, lots of Burrows and Andrew Lang,and a host of others.
There are many more books now, and newspapers and magazines and blogs and podcasts, but the thrill of that day in 1997 has staid with me and is the tangible memory I take with me when I see a new student who wants to learn to access their computer. It is the inspiration for my business’ name, Portal Tutoring. In short, folks, I want others to have the same thrill I got that day way back in 1997 when I opened the door to access for the first time! the heady feeling of freedom is the same now when I read my local newspaper online as it was when I opened that file and discovered that I had seven hundred and forty books at my fingertips!
Greetings all,
Well, judging from my recent perusal of all the many blogs on the list, most people aren’t blogging. I have great hopes for my blog. I am posting it for several reasons: first, I want to let folks know who I am and what I’m up to these days; second, I thought, since I was one of Serotek’s trainers that I would put up a tip of the week or a small tip on using your computer; third, since I’ve decided to branch out into teaching good writing skills, I figured that a tip every once in a while from Bella Scribner would be in order.
However, I see that nobody is posting to blogs and notbody seems to be reading. I’ve got great hopes for this here blog, but it can only continue if people read it. So, I hope you will let me know if you read my blog. Tell me what you like. Tell me what you don’t like. Suggest subjects for tips. Again, I can’t write this blog without you.
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