Tammy Blanchard
The Good Shepherd
This is the story of Edward Wilson, a man who has believed in the United States of America all his life, who has always done what he thinks [...]
But of her herb knowledge I wanted none; it is one thing for a pastor’s wife to have such learning and another thing again for a widow woman of my sort.
Geraldine Brooks - Year of wonders -pg.38
this is just a few what I have seen lately
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I’M A GUMMY BEAR, YES I’M A GUMMY BEAR, I’M A YUMMY TUMMY LUCKY FUNNY GUMMY BEAR.
oh hell no
This book deals with the Dialect of the English Language that is spoken in Ireland. As the Life of a people—according to our motto—is pictured in their speech, our picture ought to be a good one, for two languages were concerned in it—Irish and English. … Here for the first time—in this little volume of mine—our Anglo-Irish Dialect is subjected to detailed analysis and systematic classification. P.W. Joyce’s 1910 work, “English as We Speak it in Ireland,” is a fascinating chronicle of a language’s life, and no mistake.
THE LIFE OF A PEOPLE IS PICTURED IN THEIR SPEECH. | MetaFilter
