Not all English words come from Latin…

Many of my students often have the misconception that all languages, including English, come from Latin. Nope.  Not true.  A lot of languages come from Latin, but English is not one of them.  English is a Germanic language. We have borrowed a ton of vocabulary from...

The backup plan.

In 68 days, my family and I are moving overseas.  We will be gone at least four months. I am going to start writing about the process here on my blog.  I typically don’t write about private affairs, but so many people are asking.  It would actually save me a...