After Rain, David Crystal, English Usage, Hooked on Jazz, Kwizz Gig, Mary Bennet, Nouns and Verbs

Issue 43

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Seven — Tony Rogers
But which seven?

"A Word Spoken at the Right Moment Is like a Golden Apple on a Silver Dish" — Harlish Goop
At last! After nearly five years we have another essay in our Up-front Popularizers series.

Hooked on Jazz — Col White

"My interest in jazz started as a mild affliction and gradually developed into a mild addiction."

The second in our new series.

After Rain — Bet Briggs
A poem about renewal.

Mary Bennet — Jennifer Paynter

"He was standing at the window with his face turned away but I realized at once that he had been crying. I went to him directly and took his hand and he seemed to welcome the contact though he said nothing."

Part 15 of our serialised novella.

A Word in Your Pink Shell-like — Harlish Goop

"But this is Bikwil, and the editor won't permit naked negativism, though I’ve heard that I can moan a bit if I at least partly clothe my complaint in humour. Fortunately, some of these verbalising uses of nouns are so ludicrous that they are already down on their knees begging for the 'ha-ha response'."

Are you ready for some lazy nouns and verbs?

Web Line — Tony Rogers

Four sites on English usage.

Quintessential Quirky Quotes
Comic and Classic, from Everywhere and Everywhen

From the Back Verandah — Fizzgig
Here we go again. It’s Kwizz Gig 4.