English or Language – The Haps With Herb

Wring In The New

February 23, 2023 Herb 15

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 223028 – 1074 Here’s the haps: I cannot imagine being a learner of English. What a tedious, impossible(‽) task. What have I wrought in my writing? Was it all for naught or was it rot or wrought? I was fraught Continue Reading[...]

“Feelin’ Froggy? Then Eat A Live Frog,” Mark Twain?

August 30, 2022 Herb 32

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22851 – 995 Here’s the haps: I was visiting someone’s blog a while ago and they quoted Mark Twain as saying, “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: Zee or Zed, Let’s Put This Thing To Bed

April 30, 2022 Herb 25

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22727 – 976 Here’s the haps: “It’s a good thing we won that Revolutionary War or we’d all be speaking English today.” Americans are almost the only ones to end the alphabet by pronouncing the last letter, “zee.” The rest Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: T is for Timeout or, Perhaps, Talk Like Shakespeare

April 23, 2022 Herb 26

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22720 – 970 Here’s the haps: Hi Everyone. Sorry, no post tonight. I’m taking tonight off and will pick back up on Monday with the ever-ubiquitous, U. But well, it being (as is commonly reported) Shakespeare’s birthday/deathday and it also Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: E Is For Easy

April 6, 2022 Herb 19

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22705 – 954 Here’s the haps: I wanted to do an easy post for today because I don’t have much time. So, I’ve decided it would be a piece of cake to take the easy way out. I mean, it’s Continue Reading[...]

Enunciate When You Pronunciate!

January 16, 2022 Herb 27

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22626 – 934 Here’s the haps: <><><><><><><><> I have several readers who are non-native English speakers and several others what don’t talk good American but speak English, instead. Canada, The UK, Australia, New Zealand all have quirks of their own. Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: V Is For The Villanelle Of The Villainous Villain L

April 26, 2021 Herb 22

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22361 – 825: Here’s the haps: My dear fans, friends, fiends, foes, foundlings, frolicking freaks, and other nice assorted people, I went looking back to find the post where I tried my hand at writing a poem in the villanelle Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: T Is For Talk Like Shakespeare Day

April 23, 2021 Herb 33

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22358 – 822: Here’s the haps: I usually say something about Shakespeare on the twenty-third of April every year. It is, as best as anybody can tell, the day he was both born and died, 1564 – 1616. This year Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: S Is For SHM-Reduplication

April 22, 2021 Herb 18

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22357 – 821: Here’s the haps: Aah, haps shmaps. Reduplication shmeduplication. So what? Who cares? I originally got interested in this because I was at someone’s blog and saw that an apostrophe appeared misplaced, although after re-reading the piece I Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: E is for Epically Awesome, Dude And Other Phrases That I Literally Dislike

April 6, 2021 Herb 34

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22341 – 807: Here’s the haps: There are some words and phrases which have figuratively been used to death. Epic and Awesome are two words that are just so abused anymore that they really don’t have any meaning. When I Continue Reading[...]

Special Bonus Post – trouble at participle headquarters — Wrong Hands Comic

October 4, 2020 Herb 7

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22157 – 726:

Who’s To Blame For Herb’s Poetry Habit

September 15, 2020 Herb 21

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22138 – 709: As you may or may not recall I have at times fancied myself something of a poet. I think some of my stuff is okay while some of it is mind-rotted drivel of the lowest sort. Continue Reading[...]