Here’s some word surprises. Did you know that:
• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand, assuming you are a proper-typist, as opposed to those of us who specialize in the hunt-and-peck two-finger...
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Faithful reader, William Gray, asks about flammable and inflammable. I guess Gray had not yet discovered Twisty Tongue when these two words were discussed in October of 2001 and again in July of 2005.
But this fascinating pai...
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“One!”
“What? Are you kidding?”
Winnipeggers can be forgiven for being skeptical about the average daily mosquito count in city traps. But it’s true. The average daily count for female mosqu...
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Every month, WinnipegREALTORS® tracks the performance of the different property types that make up the MLS® system. Since residential-detached (commonly referred to as single-family) homes make up roughly three out of every fo...
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by Bruce Cherney
Former Manitoba Premier Duff Roblin was among a generation of politicians who had been elected under a proportional system. Before he passed away on May 30, 2010, Roblin told the Winnipeg Real Estate News, he was n...
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A hot July was accompanied by a heated-up MLS® housing market, according to WinnipegREALTORS®.
In July, MLS® sales rose by four per cent to 1,246 units, while dollar volume sales went up 10 per cent to $288.1 m...
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We’re plagued daily by little irritations, new experiences and strange new habits that reduce us to helpless creatures, fighting to overcome the trivial annoyances of everyday life. And, we notice all this even more as we ge...
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L. Singh, who has written to Twisty Tongue in the past, enjoys crossword puzzles. He wrote, “Clues such as ‘change for the better’ sometimes want amend and sometimes want emend. What’s going on?”
Amend...
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Barber House, the historically-significant home that once belonged to a pioneering family, has a new lease on life thanks to Sistars, a Point Douglas community group. After 30 years of neglect and serious fire damage, the group re-opened Barb...
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Buying a house is not as simple as finding a for sale sign. In fact, there are now a lot fewer of these signs around.
Why?
The city is clamping down on home sellers who try to attract attention to their...
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