Please RSVP to Alison so we can get a count on the Thai food.
Jones Center for Nonprofits at St. Mary's
1200 W Walnut St, Rogers
EVERYONE IS WELCOME
Eureka Springs
THURSDAY, December 3 5:00 p.m.
Village Writing School (177 Huntsville Road) Jessie will make homemade
hot chocolate and a warm meal.
Gail Pierce Larimer
Three Words to Keep in Your Sights
Homonyms are words that sound alike but have different meanings and often are not spelled the same. When we think of homonyms, we tend to think of pairs of words such as bear/bare, prints/prince or hall/haul. On occasion, there are three homonyms in a set: to/too/two or pear/pare/pair.
Some homonyms can prove troublesome for the writer. A good example of this is the threesome:
Sight/Site/Cite
The word sight can be used in a variety of ways. Generally, sight refers to the process or function by which we see the world around us (light being interpreted by the eye). Example: He had sight in only one eye.
Sight also can refer to something that is seen, perhaps a spectacle: You are a sight for sore eyes! She looked a sight in her bikini that was two sizes too small. In its plural form, the word can refer to aspiration: The young girl had her sights set on becoming the prima ballerina of a major dance company. A sight also can be a device to aid in vision, such as the sight on a camera or on a rifle.
Site refers to a particular place or physical location: He chose the mountaintop as the site for his new home. Site also can designate an electronic location: For more information, please visit our website. In the latter case, the words web and site have been merged into a compound word.
The word cite is a verb and is derived from the noun citation (although sometimes cite can be used as a noun, a short form for citation). As a verb, cite means to praise or to mention in a citation. It may also mean to quote words or a passage from a book or an author, usually in support of some specific argument or position. In the legal sense, cite relates to an order to appear (as in a court of law).
Sight, site and cite—three very different words that sound the same. (And you can cite me on that!)
See CMS: Glossary of Problematic Words and Phrases, Paragraph 5.220: sight, site, and cite.
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Eureka Springs
Maumelle/Little Rock
Rogers/Bentonville
Fayetteville
Nature Writing Workshop
with Madison Woods at Hobbs State Park
Congratulations to Kate Lacy on her two poetry awards:
First place in the Texas Poets Northwest Contest
Second place in the Arkansas Opal Jane & Harry O'Neal Contest.
Thursday in Eureka. In the midst of all the Thanksgiving and birthday festivities:
Our librarian Nancy Harris gave library tours to remind us of our great collection of books on writing and how they are organized.
Several of us brought one item to represent our work in progress. We had everything from bloody pipes and liquor bottles to angels.
Brews Open Mic December 2 6:00
Celebrate Your Truth For more information, visit their Facebook Page here.
December 1, Tue - WNO Bentonville Christmas Party!
6:30 PMCenter for Nonprofit(Rogers)
December 3, Thur - WNO Eureka Springs
6:00 PMVillage Writing School (Eureka Springs)
December 5, Sat - Alison Taylor-Brown,The Word & The Sentence
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