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Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Singular and PluralI recently shared a photo across my social media accounts of the grammar textbook that I currently use with my oldest....
April 6, 2019- Word Matrix: Thaumate
<thaumate> “wonder, astonishment, thing to look at, miracle,” from Greek thauma (genitive thaumatos), literally “a thing to look at,” from root...
April 4, 2019 - Word Matrix: Thauma
<thauma> “wonder, astonishment, thing to look at, miracle,” from Greek thauma (genitive thaumatos), literally “a thing to look at,” from root...
April 4, 2019 - Word Matrix: Ichor
<ichor> “ethereal fluid that serves for blood in the veins of the gods,” from French ichor or Modern Latin ichor, from...
April 3, 2019 
Word Matrix: Morrow<morrow> “morning” from Middle English morwe, variant of morwen, from Old English morgen Word Sums Morrow Morrow + s =...
April 1, 2019- Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Nouns and Adjectives
Notional grammars define adjectives as “words that describe nouns.” Big, cute, green, small, and wonky are prototypical adjectives. In big bully,...
March 31, 2019 - Lies Your Grammar Teacher Told You: Indirect Objects
I recently tweeted my post entitled Using Nouns and Noun Phrases as Indirect Objects. To my tweet, I received a comment...
March 29, 2019 - Word Matrix: Aqu
<aqu> “water” from Latin aqua “water, the sea, rain” Word Sums Aqu + a -> aqua Aqu + a + s...
March 28, 2019 - Word Matrix: Birth
<birth> “bear offspring,” from Old Norse burðr, byrd, replacing Old English ġebyrd “birth, descent, race; offspring; nature; fate,” from PIE *bhrto...
March 21, 2019 
Word Matrix: Talc<talc> from Middle French talc, probably from Spanish talco and Medieval Latin talcus, also talcum “talc” from Arabic talq, from Persian...
March 15, 2019- A Short History of ‘You’
“What’s wrong with you?” posits the Oxford Dictionaries. But, seriously, what’s up with the oddness that is the second person personal...
March 12, 2019 - Word Matrix: Wint(e)r
<wint(e)r> Old English winter (plural wintru) “fourth and coldest season of the year” Words Sums Wint(e)r = winter Wint(e)r + s...
March 9, 2019 - Word Matrix: Solve
<solve> “disperse, dissipate, loosen” from Latin solvere Word Sums Solve Solve + s = solves Solve + ed = solved Solve...
March 6, 2019 - Word Matrix: Lact
<lact> “milk” from Latin lac (genitive lactis) “milk” Word Sums Lact + ate = lactate Lact + ate + s =...
March 4, 2019 - Word Matrix: Ornithe
<ornithe> “bird” from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”) Word Sums Ornithe + s = ornithes Ornithe + ic = ornithic Ornithe...
February 27, 2019
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