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From the blog: This month's Ten Things is words ending "-oo" ...

https://zenmischief.com/2026/08/ten-things-78/

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Yesterday from my blog: this month's "Ten Things" on words ending in "-ene".

https://zenmischief.com/2026/07/ten-things-77/

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From the blog: This month's Ten Things is words ending "-va".

https://zenmischief.com/2026/06/ten-things-76/

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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column will present a selection of words (of five or more letters) with a different ending each month. This month …

Words Ending in -va

1. baklava
2. balaclava
3. bodhisattva
4. conjunctiva
5. guava
6. supernova
7. vulva
8. yeshiva
9. zelkova
10. zyzzyva

So how many of those words did you know? And how many do you use?

This day on my blog, my list of Ten Things for May. This year we're presenting a selection of words (of five or more letters) with a different ending each month. This month we have Words Ending in -tude.

https://zenmischief.com/2026/05/ten-things-75/

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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column will present a selection of words (of five or more letters) with a different ending each month. This month …

Words Ending in -tude

1. desuetude
2. etude
3. verisimilitude
4. decrepitude
5. pulchritude
6. vicissitude
7. latitude
8. ineptitude
9. amplitude
10. magnitude

So how many of those words did you know? And how many do you use?

Today on my blog, this month's "Ten Things" which is "Words ending in -lion" ...

https://zenmischief.com/2026/04/ten-things-74/

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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column will present a selection of words (of five or more letters) with a different ending each month. This month …

Words Ending in -lion

1. tatterdemalion
2. postillion
3. perihelion
4. dandelion
5. battalion
6. ganglion
7. vermillion
8. rapscallion
9. stallion
10. bullion

So how many of those words did you know? And how many do you use?

This month's "Ten Things" on my blog is "Words Ending in -us (but not -ous or -ius)". Enjoy!

https://zenmischief.com/2026/03/ten-things-73/

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Today's blog post is our monthly "Ten Things". This month, "Words Ending in -ack"

https://zenmischief.com/2026/02/ten-things-72/

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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column will present a selection of words (of five or more letters) with a different ending each month. This month …

Words Ending in -ack

1. bladderwrack
2. barrack
3. crackerjack
4. googlewhack
5. haversack
6. knickknack
7. quack
8. stickleback
9. thumbtack
10. thwack

So how many of those words did you know? And how many do you use?

Today on the blog, this month's Ten Things. This year we're looking at words with specific endings: this month words ending "-ine".

https://zenmischief.com/2026/01/ten-things-71/

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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column will present a selection of words (of five or more letters) with a different ending each month. This month …

Words Ending in -ine

1. asinine
2. concubine
3. entwine
4. fettuccine
5. labyrinthine
6. migraine
7. ovine
8. praline
9. serpentine
10. thylacine

So how many of those words did you know? And how many do you use?

Also on my blog today, this month's Ten Things, being Artists born in the 20th Century.

https://zenmischief.com/2025/12/ten-things-69/

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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 20th Century

1. David Hockney
   David Hockney; Nude, 17th June 1984
   
2. Ed Burra
3. Adrian Daintrey
4. Tracey Emin
5. Andy Warhol
6. Jackson Pollock
7. Eric Ravilious
8. Alberto Giacometti
9. Graham Clarke
10. Damian Hirst

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This month's Ten Things entry on my blog is Ten Composers Born in 20th Century.

https://zenmischief.com/2025/11/ten-things-64/

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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Composers Born in 20th Century

1. Philip Glass
2. John Cage
3. Olivier Messian
   Olivier Messian
   
4. György Ligeti
5. John Rutter
6. Judith Weir
7. Constant Lambert
8. Benjamin Britten
9. Dmitri Shostakovich
10. Luciano Berio

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On my blog today are this month's Ten Things: Artists Born in 19th Century

https://zenmischief.com/2025/10/ten-things-70/

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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 19th Century

1. Amadeo Modigliani
   Amadeo Modigliani; Reclining Nude
   
2. Piet Mondrian
3. Jacob Epstein
4. George Braque
5. Constantin Brâncusi
6. Henry Moore
7. Paul Klee
8. Paul Nash
9. Henri Matisse
10. Auguste Rodin

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Today's offering on my blog is one of the Ten Things series. This month "Ten Composers Born in 19th Century"

https://zenmischief.com/2025/09/ten-things-63/

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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Composers Born in 19th Century

1. Bedrich Smetena
2. Leoš Janacek
   Leoš Janacek
   
3. Jean Sibelius
4. Claude Debussy
5. Sergei Prokofiev
6. Carl Orff
7. Richard Wagner
8. Maurice Ravel
9. Igor Stravinsky
10. Erik Satie

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The blog's "Ten Things" this month is "Artists Born in 18th Century".

https://zenmischief.com/2025/08/ten-things-68/

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We continue this year's series of "Ten Things" on my blog with "Ten Composers Born in 18th Century":

https://zenmischief.com/2025/07/ten-things-62/

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Today on my blog, this month's Ten Things. On this occasion "Ten Artists Born in 17th Century".

https://zenmischief.com/2025/06/ten-things-67/

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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 17th Century

1. Claude Lorrain
2. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
3. Willem van der Velde the Younger
   Willem van der Velde the Younger
   Calm: Fishing Boats under Sail
   
4. Johannes Vermeer
5. Wenceslaus Hollar
6. Aelbert Cuyp
7. Pieter de Hooch
8. Antoine Watteau
9. William Hogarth
10. Peter Lely

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Also on my blog today ... this month's Ten Things which is Composers Born in 17th Century.

https://zenmischief.com/2025/05/ten-things-61/

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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Composers Born in 17th Century

1. George Frideric Handel
2. Jean-Philippe Rameau
3. JS Bach
4. Jean-Baptiste Lully
5. Dieterich Buxtehude
6. Domenico Scarlatti
   Domingo Antonio Velasco
   Portrait of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
   
7. Pavel Josef Vejvanovský
8. Joan Cererols
9. Jean-François Dandrieu
10. François Couperin

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This month's "Ten Things" on my blog today is "Artists Born in 16th Century" starting with Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

https://zenmischief.com/2025/04/ten-things-66/

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Ten Things

This year our Ten Things column each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. As always, there’s no guarantee you will have heard of them all!

Ten Artists Born in 16th Century

1. Pieter Bruegel the Elder
   Pieter Bruegel the Elder
   The Peasant Wedding
   
2. Nicolas Poussin
3. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
4. Anthony van Dyck
5. Giuseppe Arcimboldo
6. El Greco
7. Nicholas Hilliard
8. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
9. Frans Hals
10. Hendrick Avercamp

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This year the "Ten Things" on my blog each month is alternating between composers and artists a century at a time from pre-1500 to 20th century. This month: Composers Born in 16th Century.

https://zenmischief.com/2025/03/ten-things-60/

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