32-hour work week just won’t work | Letters A 32-hour standard work week has been proposed by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent, and others. The bill calls for employers to make no reduction in worker pay or benefits from the ... 04/14/2024 - 8:40 am | View Link
MAGA conservatives are only conservative when it meets their agenda | PennLive letters Trump conservatives are very concerned about optics and impartiality, but no competent judge or prosecutor would ever meet their standards. 04/14/2024 - 4:16 am | View Link
Letters about Caitlin Clark, Iowa basketball: This team made the state relevant Opinion: Letters writers assessed the sunset of Caitlin Clark's Hawkeye career with plaudits, thanks, and an ode to Seabiscuit. 04/14/2024 - 2:31 am | View Link
A Possible Wartime Love and Hidden Shame: Old Letters Harbor Family Secrets The letters often surface after our parents die, and we see them in ways we never did before—but wish we could have. 04/14/2024 - 1:30 am | View Link
Sheboygan letters on spring elections, abortion, Urban Middle School, hazardous waste and the Freedom to Vote Act This week's letters to the editor touch on a series of topics including local elections, a hazardous waste collection and the Freedom to Vote Act. 04/13/2024 - 10:45 pm | View Link
English Alphabet | Writing | EnglishClub An alphabet is a set of letters or symbols that we use to represent the basic speech sounds of a language in writing. This page looks at writing the English alphabet. You can read about pronouncing the English alphabet here. The English word "alphabet" comes from the Latin word "alphabetum". 04/13/2024 - 5:14 am | View Link
Letter (alphabet) Definition and usage. A letter is a type of grapheme, the smallest functional unit within a writing system. Letters are graphemes that broadly correspond to phonemes, the smallest functional units of sound in speech. Similarly to how phonemes are combined to form spoken words, letters may be combined to form written words. 04/13/2024 - 4:10 am | View Link
How to Write a Letter: Step-By-Step Guide With Tips Updated on July 7, 2022 Writing Tips. Everyone should know how to write a letter, whether a business inquiry, email, personal letter, or letter-format social media post. Letter writing is a useful skill, not only for communicating clearly, but also for making a good impression—especially a first impression. 04/12/2024 - 11:16 pm | View Link
English alphabet The alphabet for Modern English is a Latin-script alphabet consisting of 26 letters, each having an upper- and lower-case form. The word alphabet is a compound of the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta. The alphabet originated around the 7th century to write Old English from Latin script. 04/12/2024 - 9:14 pm | View Link
English Alphabet | Learn English The English alphabet has 26 letters. In "alphabetical order", they are: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z. Five of the letters are "vowels": a e i o u. The remaining twenty-one letters are "consonants". We can write each letter as a "large letter" (capital) or "small letter". 04/12/2024 - 8:32 pm | View Link
Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all Denver Post readers, to share these mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer?
“Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel,” by Shahnaz Habib (Catapult, 2023)
Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all Denver Post readers, to share these mini-reviews with you.
“The Memory of Lavender and Sage,” by Aimie K. Runyan (Harper Muse)
Tempesta’s father is dead. His will leaves the family fortune to her brother. But to everyone’s surprise, the will gives Tempesta money that had belonged to her mother, who died years before. Tempesta has no reason to remain in New York. Her grandmother hates her, her brother is disdainful, and she’s bored with her newspaper job.
So on a whim, Tempesta buys, sight unseen, a house in her mother’s native Sainte-Colombe, France.
Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our bedside tables. So we asked them, and all Denver Post readers, to share these mini-reviews with you. Have any to offer?
“End of Story,” by A. J. Finn (William Morrow)
“End of Story,” by A. J. Finn (William Morrow)
A. J. Finn’s “The Woman in the Window” was a huge best-seller. “End of Story” is destined to be, too. It’s a mystery more than a thriller, and a tightly crafted page-turner.
Literary critic Nicky Hunter is a huge fan of mystery writer Sebastian Trapp.
Editor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. We’ll also let you in on some hidden gems).
Right now, fans of sci-fi/fantasy films are going ga-ga over “Dune: Part 2” (which certainly is gorgeous).
But I’m here to sing the praises of another space opera.
A young George Lucas talks with Anthony Daniels, who plays the robot C-3PO, for the film “Star Wars: A New Hope,” in 1977.
I was a bit late jumping on the Star Wars bandwagon.