I rarely post here since starting my Shameless Spelling site, and mostly what I post here is announcements and updates ...
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Given the exorbitant prices of everything associated with the Etymology conference this year – the venue, the travel, and food! ...
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This is cross-posted to Shameless Spelling. When I first embarked on serious orthographic study, most of what I knew pedagogically ...
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This post is for the folks who still follow me here, at my archival blog, but aren't on Facebook and ...
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in 2019, I began offering a LEXinar on Latin Palatals™, the patterns that are ridiculously taught as the morpheme-butchering nonsense ...
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A couple of months ago, one of my longtime clients reached out for help with the Fry List, a commonly-used ...
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This fall, I will be launching a new series of LEXinars™ to help folks better understand how Latin, Greek, and ...
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I just had the following exchange in my LEX Facebook messenger – it's long, and annotated, so buckle up: Stranger: ...
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When people are new to studying with me, they often hear about concepts they're uncertain of, and would like to ...
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In her book, Dyslexia & Spelling: Making Sense of it All, businesswoman and linguist wannabe Kelli Sandman-Hurley fails to make sense ...
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It's hard to believe that this year is our 10th Etymology! weekend conference. As much as we'd love to be ...
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I've been studying Grimm's Law with a couple of my kiddos lately. It takes more than one session to go ...
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