Category: English Editing

From the Anglo-Saxon period down to the 17th and 18th centuries, Latin, as well as being the language of church…

A true scientist lives up to the etymological meaning of his title ‘one who knows’. Anything scientific is based on…

If you think that grammar is an exact science, get ready for a shock. Grammar is a science, all right…

English grammar is confusing enough as it is – what makes it doubly confounding is that it is slowly but…

The dermatologist, whose specially is dermatology is so named from Greek derma, skin. See the syllables derma in any English…

The orthopaedist is so called from the Greek roots orthos, straight or correct, and paidos, child. The orthopaedist, by etymology,…

Paediatrician is a combination of Greek paidos, child; iatreia, medical healing: and –ician, expert. Paediatrics (pee-di-AT’-riks), then, is by etymology…

The word gynaecologist is built on Greek gyne, woman, pluslogy, science, which comes from the original Greek logos, meaning word;…