First Post

Kirk Blanchard at Just Thinkin’ issued a friendly challenge to fellow bloggers who’ve been around for a year or more to republish your first blog post. It was actually fun digging this one up--it was on my first Soliloquy blog (which Blogger Beta ate), but I archived all the posts. And here's #1:

7/28/2004
Double-Double, Anyone?
Well. It's Wednesday. And not a thing of any interest to blog. Now there's a thing to ponder: is blog a noun or a verb? I'm guessing it's going to be one of those words, like Google, that becomes a linguist's delight and will eventually be entered into some dictionary of everyday speak. If Tim Horton's "double-double" (coffee with double cream, double sugar) made it into the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, can blog be far behind?

Here's an interesting list of words that have recently been added to the Canadian Oxford Dictionary:

http://tinyurl.com/3bssxo

Well--yawn--time to guzzle another cup of coffee and then hit the shower. Mornings come far too quickly. Sigh.

POSTED BY NANCY J. BOND AT 8:49:00 AM 1 COMMENTS LINKS TO THIS POST