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Word Stems



When we say we are writers, what do we mean? For that matter what are words? We may say they are a collection of letters grouped in cohesive form that convey a meaning.



But, that only tells us the obvious.



Letters and the words that result from the use of them are more. They are guttural outcries, grunts and groans - controlled inhalations / exhalations of life-sustaining air manipulated by the throat, tongue and lips that we have all agreed… Continue

The Origin of Pen_duelr



As I thought about a fitting pen name, I happened across a web site http://web.org.uk/picasso/hanged_man.html and read an interesting story:



According to Nordic mythology when Odin chief of their gods decided to invade another land, he first decided to hang upside down from a tree limb.



Why would he do this, you… Continue