by Dwane | Mar 30, 2015 | Education, English, Greek, Latin, Vocabulary
I am increasingly stunned by the debt English owes to Latin and Greek. Perhaps this is simply because I never seriously studied vocabulary as a child. Perhaps this, for everyone else, is general knowledge. Perhaps everyone knows Latin and Greek dumped boatloads of...
by Dwane | Mar 26, 2015 | Greek, Latin, Vocabulary
I sent out this receipt today. If you need to repeat on of my online classes because it did not click the first time, you may do so for free. I doubt you will get such an offer from the eels… New Sale! Hello A Downloads purchase has been made. Downloads sold:...
by Dwane | Mar 26, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Greek, Vocabulary
Hippogriff: A fabulous animal or monster, half horse and half griffon. I have to be honest. I question their existence. In the Harry Potter series, Buckbeak is a hippogriff. The U.S. Air Force, 50th Space Wing uses a hippogriff as their symbol. The word comes from...
by Dwane | Mar 25, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Greek, Vocabulary
Hippotigris: the zebra. Well, basically, the hippotigris is the Zebra. Hippotigris is a subgenus of the Equidae family. While the family also contains some asses (doesn’t every family?), the most famous member of the Hippotigris family is the Zebra. In my research...
by Dwane | Mar 24, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Greek
Hippiatrist: a horse healer. A hippiatrist is someone skilled in the treatment of horse diseases. This word comes from the Greek word for horse ιππος, (hippos), and the old Greek word for doctor ἰατρός, (iatros). According to Gary Larson, you may not want to visit a...
by Dwane | Mar 23, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Greek, Vocabulary
Eohippus: according to the current wisdom, the eohippus is the ancestor of the modern horse. Based on fossils discovered in New Mexico in the late 1800’s, the eohippus was a small, horse like creature. This little herbivore had four toes on his forelegs, and three...
