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Grin and bear it…or is it BARE it?
Grin and bear it…or is it bare it? No, definitely BEAR!
The words BEAR and BARE have very different meanings, but we still manage to mix them up now and again, don’t we? Here are just a few of the definitions that we could think of…
BEAR as a verb can mean…
- to carry as in you men bearing gifts, your sister bearing her first child, and trees bearing fruit, just to name a few…or even more loosely to bear a resemblance to your mother, to be the bearer of bad news or to have a document bear your signature.
- to tolerate or endure as in bearing the cold
- to maintain a direction as in to bear left or to bear north
Of course there is also the ferocious or cuddly animal, but we’re pretty sure that you already know how to use THAT word in a sentence.
BARE as an adjective or a verb can mean…
- naked or exposed as in bare feet or baring your shoulders
So, let’s take the test and see how your do…
1. Take the first fork in the road and bare / bear north.
2. The Queen bares / bears herself with dignity.
3. This will bares / bears the signature of the deceased.
4. I just can’t bare / bear this heat!
5. Do you think that tree will bare / bear fruit this year?
GOOD LUCK!
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Excuses, Excuses, Excuses!
“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”
–Anthony Robbins
“EXCUSES, EXCUSES, EXCUSES!” Don’t we all have that little MR HYDE character inside of us that always fighting for dominance over DR JEKYL? (What can I say, I’m into LITERATURE!) It’s okay to hear voices, as long as they belong to YOU, and here are a few hints about how to get rid of some of those pesky excuses.
Remember when you were a kid in school and you’d ask the teacher, “MISS, CAN I GO TO THE BATHROOM” and Teacher would say “YES, YOU MAY!” That’s because of COURSE most of us CAN get up and CAN walk out of the room and CAN go down the hall, and I’ll leave the rest to your imagination. Well, the same thing goes for CAN’T. Do you ever find yourself saying to yourself I CAN’T do this because (insert excuse here)…I CAN’T FIND THE TIME, I CAN’T LOSE THE WEIGHT, I CAN’T LEARN THAT NEW SKILL…you see what I mean.
Here’s a cool trickk. Substitute your CAN’T for WON’T. Let’s try it…I WON’T FIND THE TIME to set up that new service, I WON’T LOSE WEIGHT, I WON’T EVEN TRY TO LEARN THAT NEW SKILL. You’ll find that in many cases, your CAN’T is really a WON’T. So take FIVE minutes, choose three excuses, or three CAN’Ts…figure our if they are REALLY WON’Ts and get going to turn them and YOURSELF around!
Deborah@rewriter.ca
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Book Trivia-ID the Characters from These Clues!
Do you know the answer to this month’s Book Trivia quiz? Send an email with your guess, and we’ll reward the correct entries with a prize. Or, if you’re into suspense, we’ll publish the answer in the next issue of Timed Write.
This month, our trivia content is all about characters, both real and fictional! Can you identify the “character” from the clues?
a. Which well-beloved character was dubbed “Small Sam” and “Puny Pete” until the author arrived at his now famous name?
b. Which author was known for wearing outrageous hats to parties? He would don one of his “thinking caps” whenever he was stuck for a new rhyme.
c. Which wonky character said this? “Whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all if it hasnt been whipped with whips, just like poached eggs isn’t poached eggs unless it’s been stolen in the dead of the night.”
Here’s the answer to our APRIL Book Trivia quiz:
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales!
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Is Your SPELL CHECKER Sleeping on the Job?
Oh, if only I were just a bit braver! I would turn that SPELL CHECKER off! It can be useful in most instances, but pretty obtuse in others. Here’s an example of a very simple little sentence.
We two want to go too.
It’s not the best, but it is still a proper sentence and it passed through the SPELL CHECKER sieve just fine. Unfortunately, so did this one.
We too need two go to.
So did this one! We to need too go two.
The majority of us know the difference between those three little words TO, TOO and TWO and how to use them in a sentence, but often our fingers tend to move just a tad faster than out brains do! So, take the time to go over everything you write to publish (yes, even emails!). If you treat your SPELL CHECKER as a proof reader, you might just find it sleeping on the job!
