Cabbage

Cabbage: a hard round vegetable with green or purple, lettuce-like leaves. Who knew cabbage could be so interesting?  Most of you thought of the definition above when you read the word cabbage.  You were right to do so.  Cabbage is one of the leafy foods your kids...

A head full of words.

Yesterday I asked, “Can you think of any English words that derive from the Latin word, caput?” A few of you took a stab at it.  Just like a little league baseball game, no one struck out. You guessed cap, capitulate, capital, capitol, and decapitate (ewww.) You are...

Head’s up.

The Latin word caput means, head. When a Roman wanted to use the prepositional phrase, “of the head,” he would use the word capitis. Capitis is the “genitive” form of the word caput. I mention this for a simple reason. The genitive spelling of a Latin word often...