reading Archives | Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/tag/reading/ Best-Selling Christian Author Wed, 03 Jun 2015 00:26:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://philipyancey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cropped-pyfavicon-32x32.png reading Archives | Philip Yancey https://philipyancey.com/tag/reading/ 32 32 Word Power https://philipyancey.com/word-power/ https://philipyancey.com/word-power/#comments Thu, 28 May 2015 15:54:00 +0000 https://philipyancey.com/?p=5009 As a child I would hear my mother and other adults use a secret code in my presence: for example, “I think we’ll stop for some i-c-e-c-r-e-a-m for the boys.”  Again and again I heard that code: strange word gaps in a sentence replaced by short nonsense sounds that somehow made sense when linked together—made sense ... Read more

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