Sal Glynn, a freelance writer and editor in California, on 12 April of this year noted in a blog-post that, “After a long day of consulting dictionaries and The Chicago Manual of Style, and going back to see if he missed something, the freelance editor gets a good night’s rest by reciting past participles in alphabetical order: arisen, borne, beaten, begun, bent, bet, bitten, bled, blown, broken, brought, built, burst, bought, caught, chosen, come, cost, crept, and on into the night. Only the lame will settle for counting sheep.”
Read more of Sal Glynn’s distinctive and word-loving blog at http://dogwalkeddownthestreet.blogspot.ca/ He’s truly a man of letters — an old term and honorific!
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