enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Inherently funny word - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inherently_funny_word

    Vaudeville words can be found in Neil Simon's 1972 play The Sunshine Boys, in which an aging comedian gives a lesson to his nephew on comedy, saying that words with k sounds are funny: [1] Fifty-seven years in this business, you learn a few things. You know what words are funny and which words are not funny. Alka Seltzer is funny.

  3. What handwriting supposedly says about you - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/2014-06-03-what-your...

    Writing a closed letter 'O' means that you are a private person and an introvert. If the dot on your 'i' lands high above the letter, you are considered to be imaginative.

  4. List of catchphrases in American and British mass media

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_catchphrases_in...

    This is a list of catchphrases found in American and British english language television and film, where a catchphrase is a short phrase or expression that has gained usage beyond its initial scope.

  5. Rule of three (writing) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing)

    The rule of three can refer to a collection of three words, phrases, sentences, lines, paragraphs/stanzas, chapters/sections of writing and even whole books. [2] [4] The three elements together are known as a triad. [5] The technique is used not just in prose, but also in poetry, oral storytelling, films, and advertising.

  6. 26 of the Funniest Oxymoron Examples - AOL

    www.aol.com/lifestyle/26-funniest-oxymoron...

    The post 26 of the Funniest Oxymoron Examples appeared first on Reader's Digest. A closer look at these contradictory phrases and quotes will make you laugh. 26 of the Funniest Oxymoron Examples

  7. Satiric misspelling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satiric_misspelling

    For example, Richard Stallman and other Free Software Foundation executives often refer to digital rights management as "digital restrictions management". [ 47 ] a reference to the tendency for DRM to stifle the end user's ability to reshare music or write CDs more than a certain number of times.

  8. Asemic writing - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asemic_writing

    Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing. [2] [3] [4] The word asemic / eɪ ˈ s iː m ɪ k / means "having no specific semantic content", or "without the smallest unit of meaning". [5] With the non-specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning, which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret.

  9. Talk:Inherently funny word - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Inherently_funny_word

    Giving examples: Regarding the statement 'we need examples to show that this concept is widely held', collecting disparate 'examples' of the supposed phenomenon of inherently funny words in order to state or imply that 'the concept is widely held' is the definition of editorial synthesis.