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Word nerd

Posted in Fun Stuff, tagged english language, riddles, scrabble, words on November 17, 2020| 12 Comments »

My daughter, who says I’m a word nerd, sent me this quiz today. I love words and toy with them all the time, so my interest was piqued.

If it was a game of scrabble then that word would surely make for some decent points.

I pondered a while and after coming up with no answer I cheated and resorted to Google 🤪🤪🤪

The answer as it turns out was quite startling!!

Do you know what that word is. If you can answer the question without cheating like I did, I’ll be totally impressed.

I also discovered that at present, linguists estimate that there are just under 41,000 words with nine letters in the English language.

Anyone for scrabble?

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In his image….I think not

Posted in book reviews, Historical, news from around the world, tagged book review, Frederick Forsyth, Iraq invasion of Kuwait, the fist of god on November 17, 2020| 1 Comment »

I’m reading a book, historically factual but written as a story by Frederick Forsyth about the 1990 Iraq invasion of Kuwait.

The Fist of God. Its fascinating but OMG….humans are mad. Evil and mad. The stuff they do. I can’t believe that if there was a God, that he would want us to continue under the illusion that we were created in his image. He must shudder. I’m sure he’s washed his hands of the human race…

I remember the invasion of Kuwait, my daughter was 10 years old at the time and I used to buy the papers so we could read them. I remember telling her that this was history, we were living in momentous times.

I also remember how the media scared the living daylights out if us and despite being at the very very bottom end of Africa and closer to Antarctica than Iraq, just how terrifying it was. Imagination went as wild as you can imagine!!

I think I still have some of the front pages….I’m weird like that.

But for sure, I never realized just how evil the whole thing was. And still today, we have evil men plotting dastardly events and violence against mankind.

I think we need a meteor to arrive…

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