This week – the prompt is C is for Common.
It could mean ordinary, as in ‘common or garden’ or shared, as in ‘a common purpose’.
It could mean things are in great numbers, e.g. ‘Despite technology, notebooks are still common in schools.’
Common could mean being of a low social status, being coarse or vulgar. ‘Common as muck and not half as useful’ as my old granny never said.
A piece of land that’s available for community use is often called a common.
You can have something in common with someone else, or you might say of some villain ‘He’s nothing but a common thief.’
There’s the Book of Common Prayer, the House of Commons, the common cold, common assault, the common touch or go to the common room.
Common law – people used to talk of a common-law husband or wife. That’s common knowledge.
On the flipside, in some are of the country you might hear someone say, ‘Oh, he’s uncommon tall for his age…’
Or you could write about something that’s a common thing to do, like a trip to the beach, or a visit to the supermarket. It’s nothing special, but can you look at it or write about it in a different light?
Plenty to go at. So, it’s the usual stuff – who, what, where, when, how and why?
Remember this is just a prompt for you. If you’re writing anything else, why not let us have a look at that?
Send your piece to louise.hulland@bbc.co.uk and we’ll review them when we next meet on the radio.