Dingbats in our Lives
Have you come across a dingbat today? If you've opened a book you might have seen one--or several. I learned that a dingbat is a printer's ornament used as a spacer, box frame, interruption in text, and to decorate pages. A common dingbat is * * * used to mark a definite change or interruption/shift in a story.
How about an earworm? The thought makes you cringe? You could call it a brain worm instead. Feel any better? It's that stuck-song syndrome where a melody or part of a song continually repeats in your mind. How to get rid of it? Turn on the radio. Of course, another song could get stuck in your head.
An eye rhyme? It's a visual or sight rhyme where two words are spelled much the same but pronounced differently. Such as cough, bough, though, tough. No rhyme when spoken. Only to the eye.
A head rhyme? Same as alliteration where the sound of the first consonant is repeated in a series, such as "peter piper picked. . ."
SOME NEWS to end this blog today: My novel manuscript "Promise Full of Thorns" is a finalist in the Maple Lane Books 2016 publishing contest.
How about an earworm? The thought makes you cringe? You could call it a brain worm instead. Feel any better? It's that stuck-song syndrome where a melody or part of a song continually repeats in your mind. How to get rid of it? Turn on the radio. Of course, another song could get stuck in your head.
An eye rhyme? It's a visual or sight rhyme where two words are spelled much the same but pronounced differently. Such as cough, bough, though, tough. No rhyme when spoken. Only to the eye.
A head rhyme? Same as alliteration where the sound of the first consonant is repeated in a series, such as "peter piper picked. . ."
SOME NEWS to end this blog today: My novel manuscript "Promise Full of Thorns" is a finalist in the Maple Lane Books 2016 publishing contest.
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This is what I have always loved about our language and its evolution! Thank you for sharing this, and congratulations on becoming a finalist!
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Barbara wrote: "This is what I have always loved about our language and its evolution! Thank you for sharing this, and congratulations on becoming a finalist!"Hi Barbara-- Thanks for reading my blog, and I appreciate your comment. Are you a member of Writers' Mill?
Just catching up on your blog Jean. I like this one. Have you heard any more about Maple Lane?
Sheila wrote: "Just catching up on your blog Jean. I like this one. Have you heard any more about Maple Lane?"Hi Sheila-- Thanks for asking. Very odd, but the winner of the Maple Lane novel contest was not even one of the 30 finalists! I checked the list several times. Then I e-mailed Maple Lane and told them how unusual I found their way of choosing a winner. I told them that for a month they'd kept that poor (man) writer depressed because he wasn't a finalist, and the rest of us hopeful when we didn't have a chance at winning. Do you think it's odd that a winner wouldn't be a finalist first?
Jean wrote: "Sheila wrote: "Just catching up on your blog Jean. I like this one. Have you heard any more about Maple Lane?"Hi Sheila-- Thanks for asking. Very odd, but the winner of the Maple Lane novel conte..."
That does sound very odd.
