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Etymology VIII! New World Words

Here comes our 8th annual Etymology! conference, April 3, 4, 5, in Scottsdale, Arizona Saddle up with Douglas Harper and ...

Yeah, No

The woman on the left is the founder of a reading intervention company, and the woman on the right is ...

Ooh, Shiny!

LEX has a brand new calendar for 2020. The backgrounds and graphics are all shiny. Gold, silver, copper, jewel tones ...

Phonics and Other Phour-Letter Words

One of the ways that my understanding is a life-changing improvement over phonics is that I can prove that there ...

Cooke-with-an-E

My Symposium in the Pines ended ten days ago; my last guests departed the next day. Since then, I've ordered ...

Miss Informed

The following lies, which I have corrected below, are from a single table (4.2) on a single page (84) in ...

Why Lie?

Well, the International Dyslexia Association has done it AGAIN: They've published a flagship article on morphology in their periodical, Perspectives, ...

Going with the Flow

A few weeks ago, one of my wonderful clients asked me for some help in moving her practice from OG ...

There’s no ‘I’ in Team

"When two vowels go walking, the first one does the balking!" Vowels don't walk, and vowels don't talk. Chalk it ...

In the Neighborhood

This past weekend I heard from Emerson Dickman, Esq., a Dyslexia Industry lawyer whose lovely and competent wife, Georgette, was ...

OG, SWI, and Other Acronyms

Five and a half years ago, the IDA asked me to write an article about Orton-Gillingham and Structured Word Inquiry ...

Symposium in the Pines

I posted this yesterday on my Facebook page, and I already have 5 deposits. I expect that 15 participants will ...