September 23, 2017
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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.'
April 26, 2021
Yesterday, some Canadian woman who is a total stranger to me tried to scold me for not making 100% of my Shameless Spelling site free to […]
March 17, 2022
When people are new to studying with me, they often hear about concepts they’re uncertain of, and would like to know more about, but they rightfully […]