Sunday, September 28, 2008

Destiny vs. Destination

The American Heritage definition of destination:

  1. The place to which one is going or directed.
  2. The ultimate purpose for which something is created or intended.
  3. Archaic An act of appointing or setting aside for a specific purpose.

"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." - Martin Buber

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Keep those Consonants Coming . . .

"From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this literary technique is useful not only for poetry but also for memory."

http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/
2008/lea.cfm


And try the Visual Thesaurus just for fun:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/landing/?word=
alliteration&ad=mwcom.dict.txt1