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Santa Letters – send letters “from Santa” to your child!

iwiLetter.com — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 21:59:17 +0000

Searching for that last perfect present for your child(ren) this Holiday Season? Not finding anything that’s meaningful for them without spending a thousand dollars for that pony or dirt-bike? Send them a real letter from Santa Claus! Visit iwiLetter.com and type the letter as if Santa had personally written it to your child, select “North Pole, Alaska” as the return address on the envelope and we’ll print it, stuff the envelope, and drop it in the mail for you arriving in your mailbox in time for Christmas!

Imagine the surprise on their face when they open the mailbox and find a letter addressed To: “THEM”, From: “Santa”! Maybe Santa will ask them if they’ve been naughty or nice this past year. Maybe Santa will let them know he is packing his sleigh, checking his list, and preparing the reindeer for the trip to your house in a few weeks. Maybe Santa can let your kids know that they need to be on their best behavior to make sure he stops by your house this year

It’s quick, easy, and only $2. Simply visit iwiLetter.com and type the letter you want your children to receive “from Santa”. Address the envelope to your home address, choose 101 St. Nicholas Drive, North Pole, AK 99705 as the return address (or whatever return address you want…current iwiLetter users, just click “My Account”, then “Edit Account Info” to change your Return Address) , then complete your order. We’ll print it, stuff the envelope, stamp it with a First-Class U.S. stamp, and drop it in the mail….all within 24 hours.

Send a letter “from Santa Claus” to your children today. Visit iwiLetter.com, where you can send real letters (from Santa), write online.

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Don’t forget to change you return address back to your own address afterward, unless you want your friends, family and business associates getting letters “from” the North Pole!

Happy Thanksgiving!

iwiLetter.com — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:48:43 +0000

iwiLetter.com hopes you and your family and friends have a great Thanksgiving. No doubt 2011 has been a challenging year for many of us, but today is a day to pause and reflect upon and be thankful for what we do have. Let’s take this opportunity to be thankful for our families and our friends.

Of course, there are also many empty seats at tables across the country today. Empty seats saved for sons, daughters, husbands, wives, and parents. Empty seats of brave Americans stationed around the world fighting to protect our American way of life. Let’s not forget to pause to give thanks to these braves folks this Thanksgiving.

If you are gathered together and need a last minute idea of something to bake, and we assume you like peanut butter, cookies and bacon, then we have you covered. Here’s a great recipe for Peanut Butter Bacon Cookies!

Enjoy the cookies, and have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Interesting Letters of Note

iwiLetter.com — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:37:42 +0000

Letters of Note (LettersofNote.com) is a cool blog that gathers and sorts fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos. It’s updated every weekday.

Here are some of the better ones:

In this one, Saul was just 14 when he wrote and illustrated the following letter to Michelle Young; an ex-girlfriend who had just recently ended their relationship and, in a previous letter, blamed the decision on Saul’s unending talk of his guitar. The guitar obsession never ended and Saul soon became Slash, one of the world’s most admired guitarists and member of Guns N’ Roses. Check out the letter HERE

In 1998, aged just 14, aspiring young cartoonist Amir Avni decided to get in touch with the creator of Ren & Stimpy, John Kricfalusi. Being a hardcore fan of Kricfalusi’s work, Amir sent him an introductory letter along with a few cartoons he’d drawn, some of which contained relatively unknown characters of John’s. To call Kricfalusi’s response ‘generous’ would be an understatement. Read it HERE!

In the summer of 1899, whilst alone in his Colorado Springs laboratory working with his magnifying transmitter, the inimitable Nikola Tesla observed a series of unusual rhythmic signals which he described as ‘counting codes’. Having just detected cosmic radio signals for the first time, Tesla immediately believed them to be attempted communications from an intelligent life-form on either Venus or Mars, and later said of the experience, ‘The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another’. The next year, Tesla was asked by the Red Cross to predict man’s greatest possible achievement over the next century. The letter HERE was his reply.

If you’re a future rock god ready to write your soon to be ex-girlfriend a letter, a budding cartoonist, or just some dude that harnessed electricity, send someone a letter now, Send Someone an iwiLetter!

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Write Letters to Prisoners, Become Pen Pals

iwiLetter.com — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:43:39 +0000

send a letter to a prison inmate

Do you have a family member or loved one in prison that you want to communicate with? Phone calls and visitations are few and far between so why not send them a letter? Imagine the hours and hours alone a prisoner must spend each day. Wouldn’t a letter from a loved one brighten up their day? A letter is something a prison inmate can read, save, and re-read over and over again…it’s something that can remind them of home, family, friends and loved ones….something they can use to “get away” from the countless hours isolated and by themselves.

Even if you don’t know someone currently in prison, why not become Pen Pals with a prison inmate, brighten their days and make yourself feel better in the process. Getting to know someone in circumstances that are completely different than your own can be very interesting and rewarding.

WriteaPrisoner.com is a site that allows people to find prisoners that have indicated they are available and interested in starting a pen pal relationship. Some great info about becoming pen pals with an inmate can be found HERE. There are tips for writing to prisoners, some ideas of what to write about, some expectations of what you may experience, etc. Here’s a list of sites that help you find a Prison Pen Pal, via Yahoo! Directory.

iwiLetter.com – send real letters, write online to a prisoner…and become pen pals

Sample Letter Templates. Just Tweak and Personalize!

iwiLetter.com — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:03:53 +0000

Do you ever want or need to write a few letters to someone, but have trouble getting started? Do you have family, friends or business colleagues you just want to stay in touch with, but get writers block and struggle to even get a letter started?

Let iwiLetter.com help you get started with one of our Sample Letters. You can choose a sample letter and edit it as much or as little as you need to personalize it, or you can just send the sample letter to your recipient as-is and be done with it.

http://iwiLetter.com/loadsampleletter.html

We have a number of different sample letter categories, and a number of sample letters available within each category.

Choose from our: Love Letters, Thank You Letters, Job Application Letters, Business Letters, Rejection Letters, Birthday Letters, Legal Letters, Complaint Letters, Pen Pal Letters.

Also, please feel free to Submit Your Own Letters that we can make available as Sample Letters for others to read and use! Just click HERE to submit your letters (dis-regard the Love Letter format, we’ll receive your letter and put it into it’s appropriate category).

Send someone a letter today, send them an iwiLetter! Get started with our Sample Letters.

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send real letters, write online

iwiLetter.com — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:02:32 +0000

iwiLetter.com is the quick and easy way to send a real letter right from your computer. Write & send a real letter from anywhere you have a computer with Internet access. Just visit http://iwiLetter.com and type your letter, we’ll handle the rest; we’ll print it on recycled paper and envelopes, stuff it, stamp it with a real First-Class U.S. stamp, and drop it in the mail, all for $2.00. It’s quick, convenient and fun! Send friends, family, or business colleagues real snail mail letters without leaving home.

Why use iwiLetter?

Don’t have stamps or envelopes lying around? Write an iwiLetter!
Bad hand-writing? Send an iwiLetter!
Business Traveller stuck in a hotel room with a laptop but no stamps of envelopes? Write an iwiLetter!
Are you a Small Business owner but don’t have the time to stuff and lick envelopes, or the money to pay someone to do it for you? Mail your customers an iwiLetter!
College Student looking to write home or to Grandma? Send an iwiLetter!
Family Members looking to keep others aware of updates and new announcements (babies, weddings, anniversaries, etc.)? Send them an iwiLetter!
Do you simply want to make a more professional or memorable impact on someone than email? Write them an iwiLetter. Imagine the message you’ll communicate when they check their mailbox and find a letter To: Them, From: You!

iwiLetter Features:

We provide Sample Letters to make it quick and easy to get started. Click HERE to let us help you start writing.
Calendar Feature – Write your iwiLetter now, but pick a future date for it to be printed and mailed automatically.
Save all of your previously sent letters and addresses in your address book. Easily edit or re-write and mail letters to your contacts.
We use only recycled paper and envelopes.

Go ahead, right now while you’re thinking about it, Send Someone an iwiLetter now!

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Happy Fourth of July!

iwiLetter.com — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:45:31 +0000

Happy Fourth of July!

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Commonly Misspelled Words

iwiLetter.com — Tue, 31 May 2011 18:25:11 +0000

Here is a list of some of the most commonly misspelled words in English which I consider not interesting enough to write up as separate entries. These are the correct spellings. Reading over the list probably won’t improve your spelling much, but choosing a few which you find troublesome to write out correctly a few times may.

absence, abundance, accessible, accidentally, acclaim, accommodate, accomplish, accordion, accumulate, achievement, acquaintance, across, address, advertisement, aggravate, alleged, annual, apparent, appearance, argument, atheist, athletics, attendance, auxiliary, badminton, balloon, barbecue, barbiturate, bargain, basically, beggar, beginning, believe, biscuit, bouillon, boundary, Britain, Buddha, business, calendar, camouflage, cantaloupe, category, cemetery, chagrined, challenge, characteristic, changing, chief, cigarette, climbed, collectible, colonel, colossal, column, coming, committee, commitment, comparative, competent, completely, concede, conceive, condemn, condescend, conscientious, consciousness, consistent, continuous, controlled, convenient, coolly, corollary, correlate, correspondence, counselor, courteous, courtesy, criticize, deceive, defendant, deferred, dependent, descend, description, desirable, despair, desperate, develop, development, difference, dilemma, dining, disappearance, disappoint, disastrous, discipline, disease, dispensable, dissatisfied, doesn’t, dominant, drunkenness, easily, ecstasy, efficiency, eighth, either, eligible, emperor, enemy, entirely, equipped, equivalent, especially, exaggerate, exceed, excellence, excellent, exhaust, existence, expense, experience, experiment, explanation, extremely, exuberance, fallacious, fallacy, familiar, fascinate, feasible, fictitious, finally, financially, fluorescent, forcibly, foreign, forfeit, formerly, foresee, forty, fourth, fulfill, fundamentally, gauge, generally, genius, government, governor, grievous, guarantee, guerrilla, guidance, guttural, handkerchief, happily, harass, height, heinous, hemorrhage, heroes, hesitancy, hindrance, hoarse, hoping, humorous, hypocrisy, hypocrite, ideally, idiosyncrasy, ignorance, imaginary, immediately, implement, incidentally, incredible, independence, independent, indicted, indispensable, inevitable, influential, information, inoculate, insurance, intelligence, intercede, interference, interrupt, introduce, irrelevant, irresistible, island, jealousy, judicial, knowledge, laboratory, legitimate, leisure, length, lenient, liaison, lieutenant, likelihood, likely, longitude, loneliness, losing, lovely, luxury, magazine, maintain, maintenance, manageable, maneuver, marriage, mathematics, medicine, millennium, millionaire, miniature, minuscule, minutes, mischievous, missile, mortgage, mosquito, mosquitoes, murmur, muscle, mysterious, narrative, naturally, necessary, necessity, neighbor, neutron, nickel, ninety, ninth, noticeable, nowadays, nuisance, obedience, obstacle, obstinate, occasion, occasionally, occurred, occurrence, official, omission, omit, omitted, opinion, opponent, opportunity, oppression, optimism, ordinarily, origin, original, outrageous, overrun, panicky, parallel, parliament, particularly, pavilion, peaceable, peculiar, penetrate, perceive, performance, permanent, permissible, permitted, perseverance, persistence, physical, physician, picnicking, piece, pilgrimage, pitiful, planning, pleasant, portray, possess, possessive, potato, potatoes, practically, prairie, preference, preferred, prejudice, preparation, prescription, prevalent, primitive, privilege, probably, procedure, proceed, professor, prominent, pronounce, pronunciation, propaganda, psychology, publicly, pursue, quandary, quarantine, questionnaire, quizzes, realistically, realize, really, recede, receipt, receive, recognize, recommend, reference, referred, relevant, relieving, religious, remembrance, reminiscence, renege, repetition, representative, resemblance, reservoir, resistance, restaurant, rheumatism, rhythm, rhythmical, roommate, sacrilegious, sacrifice, safety, salary, satellite, scary, scenery, schedule, secede, secretary, seize, sentence, separate, sergeant, several, shepherd, shining, similar, simile, simply, sincerely, skiing, solely, soliloquy, sophomore, souvenir, specifically, specimen, sponsor, spontaneous, statistics, stopped, strategy, strength, strenuous, stubbornness, subordinate, subtle, succeed, success, succession, Sudoku, sufficient, supersede, suppress, surprise, surround, susceptible, suspicious, syllable, symmetrical, synonymous, tangible, technical, technique, temperature, tendency, themselves, theories, therefore, thorough, though, through, till, tomorrow, tournament, tourniquet, transferred, truly, twelfth, tyranny, unanimous, undoubtedly, unnecessary, until, usage, usually, vacuum, valuable, vengeance, vigilant, village, villain, violence, visible, warrant, Wednesday, weird, wherever, wholly, yacht, yield, zoology

This list is re-posted from – http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/misspelled.html

Just so you know how silly misspelled words can make you look, here are some photos:

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Common Errors with the English Language

iwiLetter.com — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 04:33:35 +0000

So, you know when you are writing letters to your Congressman (or Congresswoman) to tell them you think some of your state laws are all wrong, and you can’t decide whether or not to use “backward”, or “backwards”? You feel the people representing you need to have more “sympathy” for the voters in the district. Or maybe it’s “empathy”? Or, perhaps you are writing them to ask when they will be writing their “biography”, or is it “autobiography”?

Well, here’s a site that addresses all of these confusing issues and shows you the correct way to use these words, and many more:
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html

And just so you know, as an adverb, either word will do: “put the shirt on backward” or “put the shirt on backwards.” However, as an adjective, only “backward” will do: “a backward glance.” When in doubt, use “backward.”

Oh, and it’s properly pronounced as “new-clee-er”, NOT “nook-you-ler”!?

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Your or You’re?

iwiLetter.com — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 01:08:25 +0000

A frighteningly large percentage of individuals fail to understand how to use the words “you’re” and “your.” Here is a quick and dirty crash course on this common usage problem.

Understand the proper usage of the word you need. The best way to do that is to sound it out. There is a replacement test that will tell you for certain which word will fit. Read the sentence with “you are” in place of where the “your/you’re” is intended. If it makes sense, then “you’re” would be right. If not, then “your” would fit. You could also replace “your” with “my” in the sentence. If it fits, then use “your.”
Write You’re as a contraction or a combination, of the words you and are. Other examples of contractions include doesn’t” for “does not,” they’re” for “they are,” and can’t” for “cannot.”
- “You’re a good friend” means “You are a good friend.”
- “I don’t know what you’re talking about” means “I do not know what you are talking about.”
Write your as the possessive form of you, referring to something that a person has, something that belongs to the person in question, or the person you are talking to.
- “Is your stomach growling?”
- “Your book is on the table.”
Take a look at some examples. Each of the following examples shows an incorrect use of your/you’re, and why it is incorrect.
- “I can’t read you’re handwriting.”
  - Incorrect, because the contraction for “you are” is being used in place of the possessive form of you. I can’t read you are handwriting doesn’t make sense. It should be replaced with “your”.
- “If your hungry, then you should probably eat something.”
  - Incorrect because there is no possession in question. this passes the replacement test. Rewriting it with “you are” fits. This should be replaced with you’re, or you are.
- “I think your very smart.”
  - Again, incorrect. The “very smart” does not belong to the person that you are talking to — this doesn’t make any sense. Replace your with you’re, or you are.

Tips

English can be complicated, because there’s an exception to every rule. Ex.: Keep in mind that the word your will never be followed by the words the, a, or an.
The word your will usually not be followed by an adjective, a word that describes, when that adjective is describing the person that you are talking to. In other words, saying “Your very kind” will almost never be correct. “Your very kind” would be correct if they were describing a noun, as in “Your nice son brought me my coat.” Here, your nice is correct because nice is describing the person’s son.
Remember that you’re is actually a combination of two words and thus fulfills two very important roles in a sentence or clause. Because it includes both a pronoun and a verb, you’re will always be the subject and at least part of the verb of any clause in which it appears.
Try replacing “your” or “you’re” with “you are” if you are unsure which to use. If the sentence makes sense, use “you’re.” Remember that only “you’re” is a contraction. The apostrophe in “you’re” signifies the omission of the letter “a.” If the sentence does not make sense, you will know to use “your.”
For example:
- “You’re a good writer!” and “You are” a good writer!” “You are” makes sense in this sentence, so you can use “you’re.”
- “I cannot read you’re handwriting.” and “I cannot read you are handwriting.” “You are” does not make sense in this sentence, so you should use “your.”
Try not to think that proper writing is strictly “academic”. It makes you appear more intelligent. More importantly, it eliminates the risk of bad habits “slipping out” in situations in which it is critical to convey propriety, such as writing a college essay or a job résumé.
Just remember “You’re not spelling your words correctly,” and it all falls into place.

Warnings

There is another word, yore, that sounds just the same as you’re and your. Yore refers to times long past and isn’t used often in casual speech.
Simple grammatical errors, such as incorrect use of your and you’re, can harm how others perceive your credibility when they read your compositions. It is in your best interest to learn how to use these words properly.

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Re-posted from http://www.wikihow.com/Use-You%27re-and-Your