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William R. Jones

William R. Jones

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It’s all about pennies

The news media continues to provide extensive, blow-by-blow negative coverage of U.S. President Donald Trump. Social media also approaches the...

31.03.2025 40

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Finding faith

G.K. Chesterton once said, “Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.” Nevertheless, these words I offer as an...

13.03.2025 10

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Encounters with botany professor

My general botany prof, let’s call him pseudonymously Ernie Willow, was something else. He lectured without a textbook. He had it all in his head....

06.03.2025 10

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Scrapbooking and junk-journaling

In early 2017, I began sending souvenirs to one favorite and longstanding student to whom I was teaching conversational English. The souvenirs were...

25.02.2025 7

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Ruminations on 'personal death'

Diverting from my usual writing on English language and usage, I now, present this topic that many prefer to avoid and perhaps are even ashamed of it....

12.02.2025 10

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Reduplication

  You are aware of the classification of words in language. One word group that is interesting that all languages exhibit to a certain extent is...

15.01.2025 10

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Bear with me

"I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me. It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words." (Chapter...

07.01.2025 6

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Common American phrases

It was only this past semester that I began presenting per week to my English language students 10 common American phrases we use in real-life...

19.12.2024 6

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Descriptive analysis of a language

For quite some time, I did not submit articles, not because of the psychological inhibition of writer's block but because of my difficulty coming...

09.12.2024 4

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Clearly speaking about speaking clearly

You know the words "to, too and two" are homophones, as well as "by, buy and bye" and "dew, do and due." They are words classified as sounding...

01.12.2024 10

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Within and out of earshot

Always leaving my chemistry lab open, which houses my small office to the immediate right, as one enters, I do not hear the soft-soled shoes'...

31.07.2024 2

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William R. Jones

Within and out of earshot

Always leaving my chemistry lab open, which houses my small office to the immediate right, as one enters, I do not hear the soft-soled shoes'...

30.07.2024 1

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William R. Jones