by Dwane | Feb 1, 2025 | English
Tip of the Week #314: Learn English with Asterix the Gaul For some time, I’d been thinking of resurrecting my old YouTube channel. Hadn’t posted anything in nine years. Honestly, I grew weary of the “Latin perfect pronunciation police”. ...
by Dwane | Sep 11, 2024 | English, Latin, Vocabulary
In a Latin class today, we talked about the word for bad, malus. From malus, English gets all kinds of bad words. No. Not that kind of bad words. The following English words trace their origins back to malus: Malice – the desire to do evil Malicious – intending to...
by Dwane | Jul 9, 2024 | English, Latin
If you have ever worked your way through the Henle Latin series, by Robert Henle, you know the author asks students to diagram sentences. The series was published around seventy years ago. Back then, kids new how to diagram. Schools still taught the skill. These...
by Dwane | Jan 25, 2024 | Education, English, Vocabulary
In a French class this morning, my students and I learned the French word for forget: oublier. We spent a few minutes talking about the word. Oublier, the French verb, comes from the Latin verb meaning the same thing, obliviscor. Forgetful, in Latin, is oblitus....
by Dwane | Jan 24, 2024 | Education, English, Vocabulary
Raining hard in Tennessee today. On days like this my apanthropy usually kicks in. Apanthropy is the desire to be alone, a love of solitude. Apanthropy comes from two Greek words. The preposition ἀπό (apo) means “away from”. Ἄνφροπος (anthropos), which you may...
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....
