by Dwane | Dec 23, 2023 | Uncategorized
Tomorrow is Christmas Eve. All during the season of Christmas, we celebrate the most famous birthday of them all, the birthday of Jesus Christ. The question is, did it really happen? Did the son of the Creator come to our planet? Did he live, die, and then live...
by Dwane | Dec 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
Snow: small, soft, white flakes of ice falling from the sky. This word has been in our language since the beginning. In Old English, snow was snaw. English is a Germanic language. Finding similar words in the Germanic languages, then, comes as no surprise. German:...
by Dwane | Dec 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Santa Claus: the legendary patron saint of children The name Santa Claus first shows up in American English in 1773. Before then, Santa Claus was known as Sante Klaas, which itself comes from the old Dutch name for the saint: Sinter Niklaas. Today, in Holland, he is...
by Dwane | Dec 19, 2023 | Education, English, Vocabulary
Calendar: a system for measuring the days and months of the year. Calendar comes from the only word in Latin that uses the letter K, Kalendae. The Kalendae, to the Romas, was the first day of the month. It was also the day debts were due and accounts were reckoned....
by Dwane | Dec 18, 2023 | Education, English, Vocabulary
December: the twelfth and final month of the year December comes from the same root word that gives us the English decade (a period of ten years), decennial (occurring every ten years), decimal (to the tenth place), and dime (ten cents). December means: the tenth...
