#Etymology

A collection of 21 posts

Fac-Ups

Notice how the characters in the big Facebook group vie for expertise, while no one takes the time to investigate, because they haven't got it, and if they did, they lack the understanding to pursue it.

Mark My Words

It is a mistake to think that graphemes only spell phonemes, and that when they don't, it's weird or aberrant. It's not. It's totally normal.

Name Calling

“There is all the poetry in the world in a name,”  ~ H.D. Thoreau When I first start studying with a child or a family, one of the first words we study to start learning about spelling is their name. It can be a

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