fall’s best worded accessory – interjections.

09Sep08

after some lively conversation with friends about my previous post’s word choice (hooray), I have another thought I’d like to share.
Interjections are accessories for a sentence. I would maybe even say that they are the word icing on the cake. That being said, today’s language has become highly abbreviated and interjections were the first to [...]

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hooray for hooray!

02Sep08

There are some words that truly bring to a smile to my face, and “hooray” is definitely one of them. It not only carries a sense of joy with its meaning, but also with its pronunciation. Like a slice of lemon to a meal or the color red to a wall, “hooray” brightens any sentence. 
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