Fifteen Minute Ficlet #35

Today's exercise from the 15minuteficlets community features John Lyon, the Keeper of the Ellesmere Fire. It isn't much to write home about, but I did only have fifteen minutes.

The word for today:( Read more... )

Brit-to-Yank dictionary

I found this little gem through a User Friendly Link of the Day writeup. Essentially it's a listing of as many British slang words and usages as the site's writer could think of, and their translations into American English.

I was a bit taken aback to see how many of the definitions I recognised under 'Slang' and 'People' alone. Perhaps a bit more so because quite a few of them seemed either more natural or more correct than the American alternatives!

Just a beginning...

I'm going to take the John Lyon thing I just posted and work it into a proper fic. In the meantime, could someone please look over these *counts hastily* four paragraphs and correct my one line of lousy French?

( If one gets off the bus in Ottawa at the Laurier stop... )

More John Lyon.

( First draft only. Desperately needs beta-reading, editing, etc. )