November 19, 2013

Learning Spelling by Heart

A teacher in one of my training classes this year sent me a wonderful email this morning, informing me that she and her students had been […]
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 […]
December 17, 2013

True Stories

My new TED-Ed video has posted. Check it out here or on TED-Ed for the full lesson (with supplemental materials): https://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-true-story-of-true-gina-cooke I hope you enjoy it!
June 30, 2015

Mad Scientist

Scholars who take the Old English for Orthographers LEXinar take a critical look at what’s said about the historical origins of words. Many categorically false, totally […]