Vocab Practice: Bowdlerize

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This word appeared on the Cool Word Club website on March 27, 2014.

Let’s do a practice round!

Bowdlerize means:

A) To remove material that may be considered offensive
B) To embellish the written descriptions in a play
C) To alter the authorship of a written work
D) To plagiarize [Read more…]

Here’s a Bowdlerized Story!

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Most readers who love English literature would agree that Shakespeare is as good as it gets! His plays and poetry are considered some of the finest ever written.

But, this didn’t stop an 18th-century Englishman, Thomas Bowdler, from changing Shakespeare’s work.

Bowdler, a doctor and philanthropist, was a man of [Read more…]