neglectful

I have been neglectful of this blog of late. On Sunday some of my family came over to eat dinner for my mom's birthday. Before they left my sister asked if I had any books she could read. I asked if that was a rhetorical question! She went home with four books and seemed quite pleased. I hope she enjoys them and that they make it back home safely!

I received the book The Best of Tales from the Reading Room all the way from England. I love England. I am enjoying it so far (the book, not England, though I would like to be enjoying England. Anyone up for a vacation?). Her first essay is entitled In A Word Tangle. Some thoughts from the essay:

Pangram - a sentence with contains all the letters of the alphabet. "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog."

Epigram, epigraph, and epitaph. Epigram - witty remark, succinctly expressed, often in poem form. "I can resist everything but temptation." (Oscar Wilde). Eprigraph - a quotation at the beginning of a book or chapter. Epitaph - an inscription on a tombstone or monument.

"So all I can say is that English remains as enigmatic and internally tortuous language that causes its speakers no end of difficulty, but equally no end of entertainment."

I enjoyed this essay because I love words and I particularly enjoy puns.