November
2007
Free rice!
OK, this has very little to do with transcription, but it’s great! Another one of those charity websites, but instead of ‘click on this boring old advertise link once a day and we’ll donate something’ you can donate by clicking the correct definition of a bunch of weird (and some not so weird) words. It’s not perfect - there’s the odd misspelt word in there, which for a vocabulary site isn’t ideal, and because the definitions are one or two words long on the whole, they’re obviously only one possible meaning of the word. Also of course you could donate more by working for half an hour and donating your earnings than by playing on this site, freerice.com and donating grains of rice. But it’s fun, it’s educational and a bunch of us had a fun competition going for a while to see who could reach the most difficult vocab level (which if you want to play, is level 50) first. Each time you get a few definitions right you go up a vocab level, and when you get one wrong you come down one.
Congratulations to my mum, Ruth Piatkus, for winning our little competition … a large bar of Galaxy awaits you.
No prizes on the site, but you do get the satisfaction of knowing that for every right word you donate 10 grains of rice to charity! ;o)