April 2, 2019 Word Origins: Diaper The girls and I read the “Princess Diaries” series (a series of children’s books written in diary-form about real life events as known in the lives of historical princesses and female leaders). In there, they discovered the English word for the bits of cloth [...]
Awesome: journey of a word. [...]
August 20, 2017 Lost in Translation: replenish I like translating old English into what I call “literal today-English” because 15th century England in which “old English” belonged was like another world. Many words have changed meanings in small or big ways in 500 years! It is really another language. Consider [...]