July 7, 2013Lies, Damned Lies, and Word ListsEvery time I come to post something on here, I feel like I need to start with an apology, because I haven’t posted in so long. […]
December 8, 2013It’s All RelativeRecently, 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 […]
January 19, 2016Martin Luther PinkSeveral 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 […]
February 17, 2017An Incurable InflectionI 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 […]