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An Incurable Inflection

I began studying inflections in English about five or six years ago, and I'm hooked. I mean, I had studied ...

The Measure of a Man

Recent conversations with my colleagues involved the words percent ('for every 100') and cubit (the length of the 'lying down' ...

Etymology V! Philology, Phonology, and the Phylogeny of Words

Every year, Doug Harper and I put our heads together to figure out what we're going to study for and ...

Wait — Is This REAL?

The reaction to my claims about nonsense words being, you know, nonsense, has been ongoing and wide -- including four ...

Develop, not Envelop

OK, Phombies, let's consider phonics from the perspective of professional development. Phonics requires participants to memorize arbitrary sets of made-up ...

Common Knowledge

I'm saying goodbye to 2016 in appropriate fashion: spending time with my family, eating a lot, fighting a cold, and ...

Uh Soodoe Whird Kamidey

For the last couple of days, I've been running into a lot of online phonics apologia about the use of ...

I’m Ready for my Closeup

I've had the immense pleasure recently of working with two different second graders. One's journey I've been documenting in a ...

Etymology! V

Because we all need a little something to look forward to: Mark your calendars for the fifth annual live Etymology! ...

Basket Case

Over the summer I had the privilege of traveling to Pennsylvania to work with some old colleagues and make some ...

Advancing the Field

I'm pleased to announce that I'm ready to begin registrations for Multisensory Structured Language Education:
 A Course in Advanced Considerations. This ...

Moving On

My silence here over the last five months does not betray any kind of real silence in my life, work ...