Category: Wondrous Words Wednesday

Wondrous Words Wednesday – Fright vs Freight

Wondrous Words Wednesday – Fright vs Freight

Greetings Humans! Welcome to another week of Wondrous Words Wednesday, hosted by yours truly. Wondrous Words Wednesday is a biweekly meme hosted by yours truly. The concept is fairly easy – all you need to do, is share any new (or new to you) words you came across this week and share them with us. You are also welcome to share words you simply want to show off to us. For more on Wondrous Words Wednesday, you can click here. As you know, my Mommy is a librarian and a language teacher. You can imagine all the funny things she comes across on a daily basis. In South Africa, there are 11 (nope, not a typing error – really eleven) official languages. My Mommy’s native tongue is Afrikaans and about 50% of her students speak Afrikaans first language as well. It’s not wonder that the kids sometimes get confused with certain words. Like these 2: One of the spell words my Mommy did with her students this week, was freight, but about 80% of her students read and interpret the word as fright. The best way she figured to explain to them, is through sentences: The cost of the freight, gave me such […]

Posted October 27, 2021
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Wondrous Words Wednesday – Specter

Wondrous Words Wednesday – Specter

Greetings you guys! Just a quick Wondrous Words Wednesday from us today. With the whole migration, we obviously had a bit of a time-lapse as well. Can’t quite figure out if we went forwards or backwards, but last week wasn’t actually our slot for Wondrous Words Wednesday. Luckily we have loyal patrons like Debbie @ Readerbuzz who can keep us on track. Wondrous Words Wednesday is a biweekly meme hosted by yours truly. The concept is fairly easy – all you need to do, is share any new (or new to you) words you came across this week and share them with us. You are also welcome to share words you simply want to show off to us. For more on Wondrous Words Wednesday, you can click here. My Mommy is busy preparing for Fraterfest Read-a-Thon 2021 that is kicking off this Friday. We love the Fraterfest and think we did quite well last year. As you can recall, Stinkie was our host author. I’m not even ashamed to say that I don’t like things that go bump in the night. I’m sure he will host again this year as the situation with night time bumbs have not changed for […]

Posted October 13, 2021
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Wondrous Words Wednesday – Migrate

Wondrous Words Wednesday – Migrate

Greetings!  Yes, you are at the right place! This is still Elza Reads. We are just wearing a brand new jacket. Do you like it? We are completely enthralled with our new site. There are still a lot of work to be done, but for now we can at least be live and promise to tell you all about our migration on Sunday in The Sunday Post. Today is but Wednesday and that means it’s time for Wondrous Words Wednesday.  Wondrous Words Wednesday is a biweekly meme hosted by yours truly. This meme was originally created by Bermuda Onion Blog.  Of course we immediately fell in love with it and jumped to host this fun meme when opportunity struck. The idea of the meme is to share new words you came across in your reading endeavors over the past fortnight. If English is your second language, like ours, it won’t be too difficult to find new words! For more information on Wondrous Words Wednesday, you are welcome to visit our Wondrous Words Wednesday page, or you can click here. Our chosen word for today is not as much a new word to us, than a new action: Let’s visit that very clever lady Merriam Webster for […]

Posted October 6, 2021
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Wondrous Words Wednesday – Solicitous

Wondrous Words Wednesday – Solicitous

Greetings Humans! It’s Wednesday and therefore it’s time for Wondrous Words Wednesday. It will also be our last Wondrous Wednesday for this school term. Good grief, where does the time go? We so love this fun meme that we are very proud to host, but gosh our weeks are busy and it feels as if we have to rush these posts all the time. But hey – at least we still get to do it! We just hope that we still do Kathy over at Bermuda Onion Blog proud with her original meme. For more information on Wondrous Words Wednesday, you can click here. Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered, or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative! You are welcome to use our graphic or design your own. Our Wondrous Word for today, is a word I want to honor the wonderful ladies I work with every day with: Synonyms: concerned; caring; attentive; mindful; interested; considerate; anxious; apprehensive; concerned; regardful; tender What a term we’ve had. What a year we’ve had. What a passed 20 months we’ve had. We are a very small group of ladies working closely together, but we’ve […]

Posted September 15, 2021
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Wondrous Words Wednesday – Speakeasy

Wondrous Words Wednesday – Speakeasy

Greetings you guys! It’s Wednesday and therefore it’s time for Wondrous Words Wednesday. We so love this fun meme that we are very proud to host, but gosh our weeks are busy and it feels as if we have to rush these posts all the time. But hey – at least we still get to do it! We just hope that we still do Kathy over at Bermuda Onion Blog proud with her original meme. For more information on Wondrous Words Wednesday, you can click here. Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered, or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative! You are welcome to use our graphic or design your own. This passed weekend, we marveled about the innocence of a fluffy white kitten and her 40 plus Mommy once again. We came across this word in The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and we had no idea what it means:  a place where alcoholic beverages are illegally sold specifically : such a place during the period of prohibition in the U.S. Why is it called a Speakeasy?   To cater to the very large population of people who still wished to drink, hidden bars […]

Posted September 1, 2021
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Wondrous Words Wednesday – Perambulator

Wondrous Words Wednesday – Perambulator

 Greetings you guys! What a fun day today is! Well, for my Mommy at least. She and Daddy are taking a mid-week break and she is typing this post sitting at a lovely restaurant, sipping a hot chocolate and waiting for Daddy to finish his work meetings. I am at home, eagerly waiting for our baby-sitter to come and spoil me! Oh and it’s Wednesday of course and that means it’s time for Wondrous Words Wednesdays. Wondrous Words Wednesday was first created by Kathy over at Bermuda Onion Blog and is now proudly hosted by yours truly. Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered, or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative!  No rules apply here, just share any or all the lovely or new words you’ve encountered over the last fortnight.    Tips and ideas: Don’t go pull the Dictionary down from the shelf. Use words you came across in a book, a TV show, Google, a pamphlet, social media, doctor’s room, classroom – the possibilities are endless If you want to share a story around your chosen word, you are welcome If you want to link your chosen word […]

Posted August 18, 2021
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Wondrous Words Wednesday – Hoop

Wondrous Words Wednesday – Hoop

Greetings you all! It’s Wednesday and we are ever so grateful that it’s not last week Wednesday. We are not feeling like our normal, perky, quirky self yet, but at least the situation in our beautiful country is more peaceful and quite today. Wondrous Words Wednesday was first created by Kathy over at Bermuda Onion Blog and is now proudly hosted by yours truly. Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered, or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative!  No rules apply here, just share any or all the lovely or new words you’ve encountered over the last fortnight.    Tips and ideas: Don’t go pull the Dictionary down from the shelf. Use words you came across in a book, a TV show, Google, a pamphlet, social media, doctor’s room, classroom – the possibilities are endless If you want to share a story around your chosen word, you are welcome If you want to link your chosen word up with a book or books, please do so  You are welcome to share photos or pictures that will describe your word just a bit better (who doesn’t love Pictionary) Let’s stick to […]

Posted July 21, 2021
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Wondrous Words Wednesday – Exhaust

Wondrous Words Wednesday – Exhaust

Greetings you all! It’s Wednesday and time for our favorite bi-weekly meme, Wondrous Words Wednesday. It’s two days before the end of term, so this will be a quick post. Mommy is still busy with rapport cards and assessments that need to go out by Friday. Wondrous Words Wednesday was first created by Kathy over at Bermuda Onion Blog and is now proudly hosted by yours truly. Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered, or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative!  No rules apply here, just share any or all the lovely or new words you’ve encountered over the last fortnight.    Tips and ideas: Don’t go pull the Dictionary down from the shelf. Use words you came across in a book, a TV show, Google, a pamphlet, social media, doctor’s room, classroom – the possibilities are endless If you want to share a story around your chosen word, you are welcome If you want to link your chosen word up with a book or books, please do so  You are welcome to share photos or pictures that will describe your word just a bit better (who doesn’t love Pictionary) […]

Posted June 23, 2021
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Wondrous Words Wednesday – Thwart

Wondrous Words Wednesday – Thwart

Greetings you all! It’s Wednesday and time for our favorite bi-weekly meme, Wondrous Words Wednesday. Wondrous Words Wednesday was first created by Kathy over at Bermuda Onion Blog and is now proudly hosted by yours truly. Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered, or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative!  No rules apply here, just share any or all the lovely or new words you’ve encountered over the last fortnight.    Tips and ideas: Don’t go pull the Dictionary down from the shelf. Use words you came across in a book, a TV show, Google, a pamphlet, social media, doctor’s room, classroom – the possibilities are endless If you want to share a story around your chosen word, you are welcome If you want to link your chosen word up with a book or books, please do so  You are welcome to share photos or pictures that will describe your word just a bit better (who doesn’t love Pictionary) Let’s stick to words that are recognized in the English Dictionary. You are welcome to use translations of your chosen word or a brief history if it derives from a different […]

Posted June 9, 2021
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Wondrous Words Wednesday – Lackadaisical

Wondrous Words Wednesday – Lackadaisical

It’s Wednesday and time for Wondrous Words Wednesday. It’s going to be a quick post, because it’s actually very late at night on Tuesday and this will go out as a pre-scheduled post. It’s chaos in my Mommy’s world. One of her teachers tested positive for Covid today and she needs to make plans as cleverly as Puss in Boots. As you know, she works with special needs kiddies and closing the whole centre down is not that easy! Thankfully she can escape into the blog a bit. And snuggle with me.   Wondrous Words Wednesday was first created by Kathy over at Bermuda Onion Blog and is now proudly hosted by yours truly. Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered, or spotlight words you love.  Feel free to get creative!  No rules apply here, just share any or all the lovely or new words you’ve encountered over the last fortnight.    Tips and ideas: Don’t go pull the Dictionary down from the shelf. Use words you came across in a book, a TV show, Google, a pamphlet, social media, doctor’s room, classroom – the possibilities are endless If you want to share […]

Posted May 26, 2021
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