I’ve done a few Word Associations with you over the last few months, so today I’m going to give you another one. So as usual I’m going to throw some words at you and I want you to note down the first word that comes into your mind when you read each word. So here goes… [...]
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Word Association #5
Posted: February 18, 2012 in family, love, life, Health, work, computing, dementia, sport, football, SPL, television, politics, words, newsTags: mind, Twitter, Television, Games, Video Games, answers, Word Association, Science News, Vodka, puzzle
Word Association #4
Posted: January 28, 2012 in bible, blogging, car, children, church, film, Food, love, motoring, news, religion, school, Scotland, tennis, words, workTags: answers, Browser Based, Games, Health, mind, Video Games, Word Association, Word Games
It’s Saturday again, so I’d like to give you another word association challenge today. So as before, I’m going to throw some words at you and I want you to note down the first word that comes into your mind when you read each word. Here goes… 1. Chocolate 2. Bible 3. Interview 4. Diet [...]
Word Association #3
Posted: January 21, 2012 in computing, Health, life, news, religion, Salvation Army, Scotland, Shopping, television, wordsTags: answers, Crossword, Games, Microsoft, mind, Salvation Army, tigger, Word Association
Just for a change today, I’m going to throw some words at you and I want you to note down the first word that comes into your mind when you read each word. Here goes… 1. Microsoft 2. Television 3. Documentation 4. Meeting 5. Nationality 6. Drink 7. Church 8. Supermarket 9. Pet 10. Illness 11. [...]
Words Can Be Funny Things
Posted: November 5, 2011 in books, computing, language, life, school, words, workTags: Arts, Dictionaries, Spell checker, Spelling and Grammar, Spelt, Vocabulary Lists, word, Writers Resources
Have you ever had a day when you’re writing/typing and when you look at a words that you’ve written you think it’s spelt wrong, however the more you try to think how the word should actually be spelt, the more confused you become about how the words should be spelt? For me it’s never the [...]
My Comfort and Strength
Posted: November 3, 2011 in family, friendship, Health, life, love, music, pray, religion, wordsTags: Amen., Christ, Christianity, comfort, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Jesus Christ, New International Version, NIV, Religion & Spirituality, Religion and Spirituality, Salvation Army, strength
What can hurt someone, just as easily as can comfort them? Words! As I touched on in yesterday’s blog post Watch your Words, it can be so very easy to say things which to the listener can be hurtful, even though that wasn’t the intention. At the opposite end of the scale, words can be [...]
Watch Your Words
Posted: November 2, 2011 in life, words, workTags: Computer-mediated communication, email, Email marketing, letter, LinkedIn, Marketing
I was reminded last week that when you send an email, the recipient doesn’t always read your email in the way you intended. i.e. The tone of your email may come across completely differently to the reader than what you intended. How can that be, the reader is reading exactly the same words as you [...]
It Goes Without Saying
Posted: November 1, 2011 in family, friendship, life, love, music, wordsTags: Arts, boyzone, comedy, Forrest Gump, Programs, shopping, Television, Twitter, YouTube
How many times have you either said that or someone has said that to you? Have you noticed how it’s always the nice things that “go without saying“? When we’re angry or annoyed we can often say things which we’d have been better off not saying. But when it comes to telling our loved ones [...]