Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:
Christianity: Christianity Today reports on religious persecution. That (and not just of Christians) is on the rise, world-wide.
Computing: (or something) National Public Radio reports on the movement of workers from home from expensive metropolitan areas to small cities like Burlington, VT, Knoxville, TN and Greenville, SC.
Education: Grammarphobia considers the question of how a final -ed syllable was pronounced, in previous times. (Example: was "learned" pronounced to rhyme with "burned," or with "turn head?")
Science: The Scientist reports on studies of the ability of zebra finches to identify vocalization from other individual birds of the same species. Their abilities are remarkable.
Sports: ESPN and other outlets report that Kim Ng has become the first general manager of a major North American pro sports team.
The graphic used in these posts is from NASA, hence, it is free to use like this.
Thanks for looking!
2 comments:
Relative to your Sunspot regarding the question of whether to pronounce a final -ed as a separate syllable, Grammarphobia quotes the OED as saying, “A few words, such as blessed, cursed, beloved, which are familiar chiefly in religious use, have escaped the general tendency to contraction when used as adjectives,”.
To those examples, I would add one of the most common uses of the separate -ed in sacred liturgy, to wit, the word hallowed, as it appears in the Lord's Prayer. In the famous song version, the word is pronounced "hallow-ed" in order to fit the rhythm of the music. But in common speech, don't we all say, "hallow'd halls", "hallow'd ground", and "hallow'd traditions"? Yet, when repeating the Lord's Prayer many of us still pronounce it as "hallow-ed".
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