November 10, 2019
The woman on the left is the founder of a reading intervention company, and the woman on the right is one of her trainers. Yesterday, […]
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February 25, 2020
Here comes our 8th annual Etymology! conference, April 3, 4, 5, in Scottsdale, Arizona Saddle up with Douglas Harper and Gina Cooke for a wild ride […]
May 27, 2020
About a year ago, I wrote a post detailing 84 etymological falsehoods that Louisa Cook Moats published in a single table in the 2nd edition of Speech to […]
June 26, 2020
The base element -phone- means ‘voice, vocal sound.’ The WORD 'phone' is a clip of ‘telephone’ and it means ‘telephone.’ Each word in that family has a general, central meaning, a denotation, of 'voice, sound.' But they do not all have a central meaning of 'telephone.'