Oh look, Chicken Thursday - and a rare one at that because today is my birthday.
My birthday has not fallen on a Chicken Thursday since 2010 and will not again until 2027! How old am I? Let's just say I was born on a Thursday in 1965. BTW, did you know that in parts of Ghana everyone gets a name based on the day they were born? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghanaian_name
Since I'm not getting any younger I had better share the rest of the fun submissions that were spawned by the "tews" problem.
Rev. L. Clemmons shared, "To make sure I understand what you reported about the to, too, two, and tew, I offer the following as a grammatical rule: "If you misuse to, too, and two, it will be necessary to tew you until you use them correctly."
He is also concerned about the misuse of your, you're and there, their and they're as well and asks, "Can we apply the tew to these misused words as well until people learn how to use them? If so, this is an archaic solution for modern grammar that grants me a new use for my BA in English with a minor in Linguistics. I will need to hone my nonexistent pugilistic skills to properly apply tew.
His comments made me wonder if my grammatical errors make me the proverbial canary in the coal mine for English minors around the world!
M. Howard wrote, "Hi - and thanks from across the pond for a gently entertaining regular look at your world! Just thought in the light of your comments around "to, too, two", you'd appreciate me sharing this: "How do you soothe a grammar pendant? "There, their, they're."
J. Pierce proclaimed, "Some prefer to vociferate exclusively in polysyllabic pronouncements of imposing grandeur and resplendent vocabulary.
And finally, HGK555 (which is either his email username or else he is the love child of a romantic encounter between Yahtzee and Boggle games) shared this very good grammatical rule to remember: "i before e, except after c and when your foreign neighbors Keith and Heidi seize their eight counterfeit heifer sleighs from feisty caffeinated weightlifters of average height in a heist. Weird!"
Today's video share is a satisyfing look at a fascinating method of levelling sunken concrete.
Click here to watch it.
Enjoy the rest of today's mailing, which is an abbreviated one because Grandma Cybersalt and I have been burning the candle at both ends this week, helping our son install some new flooring here at Cybersalt Word Headquarters.
~ Pastor Tim
Sunday greetings everyone.
Oh look, Chicken Thursday - and a rare one at that because today is my birthday.
If you have tried to visit any of the pages on the Cybersalt.org site during the past 2 weeks you may have experienced it being very slow or not even coming up at all. The source of the problem was a real stumper for me, but yesterday I finally found it - and fixed it - with some key information from the server team!