Silent Seizure
Iola Mae is a quiet girl, filled with noise. Even her name, eye-ohh-lahh-maay makes her tongue roll up inside her mouth.
Her mother is a loud woman, filled with mission. When she calls her daughter, vowels fly through the air. Time to go. Time to rush. There is a creature in a box in the [...]
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In English, the silent letter “s” is rare. Island and debris are the examples most commonly given.
Tale I
The (Silent) Scream
My recognition was immediate and satisfying. “A cartoon! She has an earache!” Mother bent down to my level and looked at the postcard in the carousel. She laughed and called over [...]
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Edward Rondthaler, a advocate of fonetic speling, was 102 when this video was made.
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Peter Forakis was born in Hanna, Wyoming in 1927 and died on Thanksgiving Day, 2009.
This is our monumental miniature tribute to his Atlanta Gateway 1967. 100 feet by 200 feet by 100 feet, it was the largest steel sculpture ever created, and maybe still is.
In all photos we’ve seen, Peter is wearing overalls.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
E, T, A, O, I, N, S, H, R, D, L, C, U, M, W, F, G, Y, P, B, V, K, J, X, Q, Z
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
iiiahh may make cards that correspond to pictures, to create a rebus vocabulary.
we are currently gathering a list of words.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
iiiahh is an Italian onomatopoeia.
[on-uh-mat-uh-pee-uh]
iiiahh belongs with words (foosh, breedeet, fagroon, klubble) that mime the sounds made by things and beings. Ideally, this category also welcomes the miming of soundless phenomenon such as irritation brewing or stars flickering.
Onomatopoeia, like all word categories, is loosey-goosey. Sound miming flourishes in neighborhoods and tribes of all stripes. There [...]
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
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for the moment, please consider this owl, as it considers you
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