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'Harry Potter' spells seem way less magical when you examine their Latin origins

Edit Mashable 02 Jun 2016
Put down your wands and open a dictionary. While we're all still waiting for our Hogwarts letters to arrive, most Harry Potter fans already know several basic spells to help them through the wizarding world. SEE ALSO ... Hermione would definitely approve ... 1. Accio ... 2 ... Incantatum is the passive participle of the Latin incanto, which simply means "bewitching." ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... Sectum is the passive participle of the Latin verb "seco," which means "severed."...

Buccaneers Unveil 2016 Game Themes (Tampa Bay Buccaneers)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
(Source. Tampa Bay Buccaneers). The Tampa Bay Buccaneers today announced the themes for each of their 10 home dates during the 2016 season, highlighted by the Ring of Honor Game on November 3 ... ET ... In order to accommodate the growing numbers of runners that participle in the event, this year's Treasure Chests 5K race will be held on Saturday, October 29, rather than on gameday morning. Additional details will be released at a later date....

‘What Taylor Swift, Uber, and Robots Tell Us…’

Edit The American Spectator 31 May 2016
John Tamny herein provides the recipe for an American Economic Miracle ... Lawrence White.) ... To embellish on Tamny slightly, the very word “credit,” according to the New Oxford American Dictionary, derives “from French crédit, probably via Italian credito from Latin creditum, neuter past participle of credere ‘believe, trust.’” Credit is not a “thing.” It is trustworthiness, deriving from the character of the borrower ... It bears repeating....

Classic '96: A concerted effort from Mr. Language Person

Edit The Miami Herald 24 May 2016
This Dave Barry column was originally published Sunday, June 23, 1996. It's time once again for Ask Mister Language Person, the column in which we answer common reader questions that we make up concerning how to use big words irregardless of what they may or may not technically mean per se ... Q. What about dangling participles?. A. You are always going to get a certain amount of that with healthy young people. Q ... A ... EXAMPLE ... Q ... A ... WRONG. O.J ... Q ... A ... ....

US General in Afghanistan: Mansour was an obstacle to peace

Edit Richmond Times Dispatch 23 May 2016
... province that Mansour rejected the chance offered by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to participle in the peace process....

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Celebrates the Annual Grasse Rose Harvest with Le Labo (Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 19 May 2016
(Source. Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Inc) Back to Articles. Publish Date .16-May-2016 New York 16, May, 2016. Select hotels install stunning lobby rose installations and launch new series of Scents & Senses packages ... They will then work alongside a skilled fragrance lab technician to participle in mixing their own Rose 31 fragrance that features notes of rose absolute and rose essence, sharpened with spices, woods and musk ... ### ... (noodl....

The Da Vinci Code rewritten for YA readers? Please spare them

Edit The Guardian 18 May 2016
Sam Jordison ... Even further ... Related. Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect ... (I’ll leave it to you to come up with your own jokes about how that may actually improve the text.) If they remove the words “then” and “when” and all the pointless present participles Brown uses to start his sentences, this venture might actually result in a Da Vinci Code that fits into an agreeably-sized pamphlet (or a picture book) ... ....

A ‘new’ approach to communicating – oh, and jobs and growth – to be found in Budget 2016 (Monash University)

Edit Public Technologies 05 May 2016
(Source. Monash University). by Kate Burridge and Howards Manns. On budget night, Scott Morrison and the Coalition whipped out their little sack for the nation. 'Budget', you see, derives from the Old French bougette 'little leather sack' ... A boring but subtle political frame ... By 2015, pronoun use had jumped to one in 10 words ... The word innovate derives from the Latin innovatus, the past participle of innov?re, 'to renew' or 'alter' ... (noodl....

Diary from Mission Africa Freestyle (ICF - International Canoe Federation)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Apr 2016
(Source. ICF - International Canoe Federation). Recently, World Champion Dane Jackson joined forces with professional coach Sam Ward and travelled to Uganda with one thought in mind, to inspire the next generation of African Freestyle athletes. This is a diary of the two week camp ... Tammy Muir, South Africa ... Development Camp ... African Freestyle Championship ... Competition results.. Men's. 1st - Sadat Kawawa (Uganda) ... Words from the participlants....

Errors & Omissions: Mistakes – we’ve made a few, but not too few to mention

Edit The Independent 26 Mar 2016
We have had our successes. You don’t see as many hanging participles in this newspaper as you did a few years ago. And the pernicious label “moderate Muslims” doesn’t seem to have appeared for a while. But I can’t help being struck, as I survey the last week of the printed Independent, by the bad habits we have failed to root out in the nearly 16 years this column has run ... No, “both” is plural, whereas “each” is singular ... No....

Grammar errors you often make!

Edit The Times of India 26 Mar 2016
Fewer grammar errors correlate to more promotions. Then guess what numerous grammar errors would correlate to? I've tutored students for many years and I've encountered a paradox ... Why care for the dangling participle or the past perfect continuous tense when you can get lost in a Ruskin Bond story?. Stephen Kind put it nicely in On Writing ... What Sophomore English does (or tries to do) is a little more than the naming of parts ... Examples....

Belfast Telegraph balanced in EU debate, but papers free to be partisan

Edit Belfast Telegraph 18 Mar 2016
Easter is early this year, meaning there will be a long run-up to the summer ... the Stormont election and the EU membership referendum ... Share Go To ... That is possible ... The abuse of the word 'seen' seems particularly prevalent on these shores, so thanks to Fiona McNeill for taking the time to upbraid us on the difference between past tense and past participle in this sentence from an article about Lord Molyneaux ... Apologies. Related Content....

A handful of the essays we are delighted to view in additional periodical or make a reservation for. (Gwinnett County Bar Association)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Mar 2016
(Source. Gwinnett County Bar Association). A handful of the essays we are delighted to view in additional periodical or make a reservation for. Criticism and research into the process ... Correctly, there must be conflict ... Keep in mind the timeless classics and gives a half web page? You, on top of that, so its possible to - syntax in class all passed, and required oral participle expressions coupled with a tiny bit apply try using a snap....
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