January 19, 2016
Several days ago, a friend’s Facebook comment got me to thinking about the word pink. I like pink. And pink things. Probably to a fault. I […]
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February 17, 2017
I began studying inflections in English about five or six years ago, and I’m hooked. I mean, I had studied inflection before, and I knew the […]
September 23, 2017
A couple days ago I just finished teaching my Syllables: Fact and Fiction LEXinar. And in a few days I will finish up another round of […]
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.'