Mr. Smeagol? We have to talk . . .

Gollum's diagnosis.

She'll get better, really

To those of you who endured Fiona's attempt to play "Away in a Manger" on her violin at yesterday's children's Sunday School program, I am so very very sorry. We are glad, however, that she did after all play some notes right, although we must admit of course that there were many notes played wrong.

Aren't you glad the organ drowned her out by the third verse?

Banished Words List: 2004

Hardly looking 'metrosexual,' a 'shocked and awed' Lake Superior State University Word Banishment selection committee emerged from its spider hole with its annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-Use, Over-Use and General Uselessness. LSSU has been compiling the list since 1976, choosing from nominations sent from around the world. This year, words and phrases were pulled from more than 5,000 nominations.

Word Count

This site looks at how we use words and how often we use them. Presenting the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonality. The site uses data from the British National Corpus, a collection of more than 100 million words representing a cross-section of English usage.