The Spread Of English
The various dialects of English differ from the standard language in rough proportion to how long they have had a…
The various dialects of English differ from the standard language in rough proportion to how long they have had a…
Completely new words are very rare – through from time to time some do arise. One example of a word…
Here are some familiar nursery rhymes in an unfamiliar guise – as if composed by a poet who lacked the…
Cardiologist combines Greek kardia, heart, and logos, science. The speciality is cardiology, the adjective cardiological. So a cardiac condition refers…
From the Anglo-Saxon period down to the 17th and 18th centuries, Latin, as well as being the language of church…
The great changes in the world over the last century or so have brought a further flood of new words…
Flies, bees, beetles, wasps, and other insects are segmented creatures – head, thorax, and abdomen. Where these parts join, there…
We know that a geriatrician specializes in the medical care of the elderly. The Greek word geras, old age, has…