December 31, 2011

Is It Accurate? How Do You Know?

“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”  ~Harry S. Truman This post is long overdue. It’s not that I haven’t been thinking […]
June 24, 2012

At a Standstill

Earlier this month, I gave two weekend seminars called Seeing the Sense in Spelling. Each one was a thorough joy, though they were very different. The […]
November 29, 2012

Organization

At the outset, the purpose of this post was going to be to inform folks about the Pennsylvania seminars. But I ended up deep in language […]
December 8, 2013

It’s All Relative

Recently, some correspondence with a couple of different teachers has focused my attention on interesting sets of etymological relatives. For a while now, my pal Peg […]