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Bright Ideas

I rarely post here since starting my Shameless Spelling site, and mostly what I post here is announcements and updates ...

Etymology! XI is Online!

Given the exorbitant prices of everything associated with the Etymology conference this year – the venue, the travel, and food! ...

Classics Cross-Post

This is cross-posted to Shameless Spelling. When I first embarked on serious orthographic study, most of what I knew pedagogically ...

Are You Still Here?

This post is for the folks who still follow me here, at my archival blog, but aren't on Facebook and ...

New Understandings, New Offers

in 2019, I began offering a LEXinar on Latin Palatals™, the patterns that are ridiculously taught as the morpheme-butchering nonsense ...

Sixty-Five Weeks

A couple of months ago, one of my longtime clients reached out for help with the Fry List, a commonly-used ...

The Classics LEXinar™ Series

This fall, I will be launching a new series of LEXinars™ to help folks better understand how Latin, Greek, and ...

How Not To Ask For Help: An Ode To Offendedness

I just had the following exchange in my LEX Facebook messenger – it's long, and annotated, so buckle up: Stranger: ...

Where Oh Where?

When people are new to studying with me, they often hear about concepts they're uncertain of, and would like to ...

That Doesn’t Count!

In her book, Dyslexia & Spelling: Making Sense of it All, businesswoman and linguist wannabe Kelli Sandman-Hurley fails to make sense ...

Etymology X! Food As a Lingua Franca

It's hard to believe that this year is our 10th Etymology! weekend conference. As much as we'd love to be ...

What Works?

I've been studying Grimm's Law with a couple of my kiddos lately. It takes more than one session to go ...