by Dwane | Feb 21, 2015 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Dozen: The number twelve of things of a like kind; as a dozen of eggs. Dozen comes from Old French dozaine, meaning: a dozen. Dozaine derives from and earlier word doze, meaning: twelve. Doze is from Latin word for twelve, duodecim. Duodecim is a combination of duo:...
by Dwane | Feb 21, 2015 | Greek, Vocabulary
Parable: A story in which a lesson is expressed in terms of something else. A story illustrating a lesson using analogy. A short story that teaches a lesson. A simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson. Parable comes from a combination of two Greek...
by Dwane | Feb 21, 2015 | Education, English, Greek, Latin, Vocabulary
Some time ago, my interest in Latin took a sharp turn. Actually, I ran of the road. Instead of studying Latin, instead of reading books in Latin, instead of reading books about Latin… I started tracking down the English words that had come from Latin. On...
by Dwane | Feb 21, 2015 | Tip of the Week
Do you spend a lot of time in the car? According to Anne Lutz Fenandez in her book, Carjacked: The Culture of the Automobile and its Effect on our Lives, Americans spend eighteen and a half hours a week in their cars! That’s more than two and a half hours in the car…...
by Dwane | Feb 20, 2015 | Education, English, German, Vocabulary
Sledding: the perfect disruption of productivity. It has snowed here in middle Tennessee for the first time in forever. I don’t mind, since the cold never bothered my anyway. My productivity, though, has plummeted. There are five kids living in my house, some...
