The end of 2025 is rapidly approaching, and along with it, the end of my self-imposed sabbatical. This sabbatical did not go exactly as I had planned, but I'
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Recently, a question came up in my private English Spelling Facebook group about the graphemes in the word view; a discussion ensued about the <ew> digraph that can spell both [ju] as in few and [uː] as in brew. Is the <
I am proud to carry another beautiful new illustrated etymology book by artist and author Dave Buchen, this time in four-color printing: The Horn Book: An Illustrated Dictionary of Proto-Indo-European. Buchen is an extraordinary woodcut artist and also the author and illustrator of Why
I got bad news this week. It's the best kind of bad news to get, really. No one is sick or dead, and it's a problem I can handle. I just wasn't really expecting it to happen so
"A <qu> digraph is rich with history and relatives, reliably Latinate outside of a handful of native English words respelled from their original <cw>."