Food for Thought - January 2004
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Webgrammar's Food for Thought - ISSN: 1530-034X
Editor and Publisher: Judy Vorfeld
mailto:judyvorfeld@webgrammar.com URL: http://www.webgrammar.com
January 2004
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CONTENTS
Note from Judy
Windows Keystroke & Tips - How to print text on a wide page
Did you Know - "A" or "an" before "h"
Recommendations
Arts
Education
Grammar
History
References
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WINDOWS KEYSTROKES & TIPS - Have you discovered that the text on
some websites is cut off when you print it out? If this happens often,
go to the Menu bar, choose File/Page Setup, and click on "Landscape."
If printing the pages' content is important, you can usually get the
entire page by using this method.
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DID YOU KNOW - "A" or "an" before "h"
Q. Why is "an historical" said, rather than "a historical"?
A. For quite a few years, many journalists said "an historical," and it
caught on. But it is not accepted by the major style guides, including
Associated Press Stylebook 2003.
As "A Writer's Reference" (Hacker) says, "If the h is silent, the word
begins with a vowel sound, so use 'an': an hour, an heir, an honest
senator, an honorable deed. If the h is pronounced, the word begins
with a consonant sound, so use 'a': a hospital, a hymn, a historian,
a hotel."
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RECOMMENDATIONS
ARTS
THE MAN WHO TAUGHT AMERICA HOW TO SING
The Fred Waring Collection, known as Fred Waring's America,
contains historical memorabilia reflecting Fred Waring's
nearly seventy-year career as a choral conductor and showman.
http://www.libraries.psu.edu/waring/
MULTIMEDIA MUSIC DICTIONARY
Term pronunciations, musical examples, and Shockwave quizzes
and simulations. Created by Richard Cole, Virginia Tech Department
of Music and Ed Schwartz, Virginia Tech New Media Center
http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/
FREE OLD TIME RADIO SHOWS
Hundreds of vintage radio shows for in mp3 format. Before the days
of video games, shopping malls, MTV, and the Internet, families
used to sit in their living room each night to listen to radio shows
such as Abbott and Costello, Superman, Groucho Marx, The Avenger,
Gunsmoke, Sherlock Homes, and many others. When TV become popular in
the 1950's, most of these shows went off the air, but they now live
on at websites such as this one and on weekly nostalgia radio
broadcasts worldwide.
http://www.radiolovers.com/
EUCATION
ESL FLOW
Thematically-based ESL lessons in grammar, speaking, vocabulary,
pronunciation, and reading.
http://www.eslflow.com/
GENKI ENGLISH
Collection of games, songs and ideas for use by teachers of languages
to children. Richard Graham's GenkiEnglish.com gives you the techniques
and confidence to teach any language and get your kids finishing a
lesson with a big smile saying "Yeah, that was fun! I want to do more!"
http://genkienglish.net/start.htm
MERLOT.ORG
A free, open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of
higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected here
along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments.
http://www.merlot.org/Home.po
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE MENTOR
Self-paced Language Maintenance and Development Curriculum intended for
intermediate to advanced Russian linguists.
http://russianmentor.net/
SPANISH GRAMMAR EXERCISES
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/index.html
GRAMMAR
COMMON ERRORS IN ENGLISH: PROFESSOR PAUL BRIANS' SITE
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
DAILY GRAMMAR
A great way to check grammar knowledge. Use the archives or sign up
twice a year for daily e-mail lessons. Quizzes take four minutes
http://www.dailygrammar.com/archive.html
GRAMMAR CENTRAL
Links to both a teacher's notes on grammar lessons, as well as copies
of the lessons themselves. Be sure to check the index, which is an
alphabetized list of definitions.
http://www.longview.k12.wa.us/mmhs/wyatt/homework/grammar/gramm.html
MRS. BLUEZETTE'S GRAMMAR CORNER
"A PBS mind in an MTV world." Delightful, highly educational articles
by a wonderful English language wizard (umm...wizette).
http://www.newsblues.com/grammar.htm
PROFESSOR CHARLES DARLING'S GRAMMAR SITE
Outstanding to use as a quick reference for your grammar questions.
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
HISTORY
AMERICAN NOTES: TRAVELS IN AMERICA, 1750-1920
Comprises 253 published narratives by Americans and foreign visitors
recounting their travels in the colonies and the United States and
their observations and opinions about American peoples, places, and
society from about 1750 to 1920. And much more.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/lhtnhome.html
COLLECT BRITAIN - PUTTING HISTORY IN ITS PLACE
Travel through time and place with Collect Britain’s panorama of
images from the British Library’s famous collections. Maps, prints
and drawings, photographs and documents, rare early sound recordings
from around the globe – you’ll find them all here....Explore the
specially selected collections, take a themed tour or visit a virtual
exhibition.
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/
KING COUNTY SNAPSHOTS
King County, Washington, through 12,000 historical images carefully
chosen from twelve organizations' collections. These cataloged 19th
and 20th century images portray people, places, and events in the
county's urban, suburban, and rural communities.
http://www.kcsnapshots.org
REPORTING CIVIL RIGHTS
This site, a companion to The Library of America's Reporting Civil
Rights, presents the reporters and journalism of the American Civil
Rights Movement.
http://www.reportingcivilrights.org/
THE UNITED STATES NEWSPAPER PROGRAM
A cooperative national effort among the states and the federal
government to locate, catalog, and preserve on microfilm newspapers
published in the United States from the eighteenth century to the
present. Funding by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Technical assistance furnished by the Library of Congress.
http://www.neh.gov/projects/usnp.html
REFERENCES
AEROSITE AIRLINE INFORMATION
* Airline Logos Airline logos, as well as hub and callsign info
* Airline Codes Over 1,000 worldwide airlines included!
* Airport Codes IATA and ICAO codes
* Avatars Four pages of 60 x 60 images for use on forums!
* Boeing Codes Boeing Customer Codes
* Registration Codes Registration prefix listings for many nations
http://www.aerosite.net/logos.htm
ASIAN RESOURCES FOR LIBRARIANS
http://www.aardvarknet.info/user/aardvarkwelcome/
THE INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF HOMELESSNESS AND POVERTY
A project of the Weingart Center, the institute is a non-profit, non-
partisan, research and policy organization serving the research and
networking needs of academics, government, community based direct
service agencies, policy-advocacy organizations, the media,
philanthropic organizations, policymakers and other members of the
community involved with the issues of homelessness and poverty.
http://www.weingart.org/institute/about/index.html
ONLINE MEDICAL DICTIONARY
Thousands of medical and scientific terms explained
http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/omd/
TENNESSEEBOB'S FAMOUS FRENCH LINKS
http://www.utm.edu/departments/french/french.html
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