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Square Root of 5

Why, oh why, did I ever leave Wyoming? | Why, oh why, did I ever have to go? | Why, oh why, did I ever leave
Wyoming? | Cause there's a sheriff back there, | Lookin' for me high and low, | And high and low.

A lot of things interest me. Some of it may end up here. I intend to use materials only under fair use provisions
of US copyright law. If you own the copyright for anything posted and want me to remove it, tell me.

Adventures in Oklahoma

Double click on this and you'll see how I amused myself Friday: Homophones and near-homophones. I started a blog Thursday, intending only to delete it and see if I could re-use the name. I got sidetracked before I managed to do that and ended up using it.

I no longer have any idea what got me started looking at sound-alike words, but I tbink I've come up with one of the longer lists on the internet. My list of homophones (not homonyms, as I'm using the terms) has this feature: double click on a word to see a pop-up window with the word's definition and pronunciation. Since I didn't bother to check all entries, you can use that to second guess me.

Do you have any idea how easy it is to add something to a blog? All you need to do is send an email to a "secret email address." You can see the secret address for 2236067977.blogspot.com by looking at the Cc: field above. Anyone who looks only at the blog won't know the secret. That's because only the subject and body of emails get added to blogs. As a result, no one can tell who made a particular addition if an email is sent only to a blog. It could be anyone who knows the secret.

I'll change my closing to the phonynm I've used for the blog so my real name doesn't appear there. I picked "Irwin" as a hat tip to "Professor" Irwin Corey, the world's foremost authority. Corey is now 93 and has an "official website." Whereas I'm only showing a copyright through 2008, the perfesser's notice goes through 2010.

Regards,

"Irwin"

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