by Kate Walker
So the Top 21 entries in the New Voices Contest have been announced and congratulations are in order. Congratulations for the ‘winners’ ? Well, yes – but for me the emphasis should be the other way. The first congratulations should go to the total of 1088 entrants all of whom are, in my mind, winners. Winners [...]
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by Carolynn Carey
Language can be a funny thing, literally. Recently I became aware of two regionalisms that I’ve used all of my life. I had always assumed the expressions were commonplace. As I learned, that just isn’t so. First of all, in case you are not familiar with the word “regionalism” as related to language, it simply [...]
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