#Etymology

A collection of 23 posts

Rabbit Holes

Just like with the consonant-<le> pattern, there are common overarching patterns in which words take double consonants and which ones have single medial consonants.

No Fooling!

Our 10th Etymology!™ conference will take place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. The date is no joke. An EarlyBird registration discount will be made available later this month, but to qualify, you have to (a) be a paid Shameless Spelling

Body and Mind

What I mostly love to show my students is how the suffix <-ly> actually works in English. A lot of people believe – falsely – that any word that ends in an <-ly> suffix is an adverb. It's not. Here's the truth.

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