Sledding

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...

Cui bono

Cui bono: A Latin phrase meaning “to whose gain,” or “for whose good”.  If someone stands to gain from a crime, or a government stands to gain from war, someone else may question their motivation with a short, “Cui bono?” 

Hyperbole

Hyperbole: extreme exaggeration of overstatement. Hyperbole derives from the Greek ὑπέρ: above and βάλλειν: to throw. A figure of speech which express much more, or much less than the truth, or which represents things much more or much less, much better or worse than...

Help me get back on track….

One of my goals this year is too blog every day (except Sunday). Today is day 45. So far, it is working. What is not working, however, is the “word of the day.” From 2010 to 2013, I posted a “word a day” almost daily. Late in 2013, after my...

Lingua Latina Vocabulary

I received this inquiry: From what we can tell, the vocabulary list provided for us doesn’t have all the words that are in the Lingua Latina book. The kids are having a hard time knowing for sure if they are answering the questions at the end of the chapters...

Word Up!

Some time ago, my interest in Latin took a sharp turn.  Honestly, 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...