Solon in English I didn’t realize until today’s Merriam-Webster Word of the Day that the name of the Athenian lawgiver Solon had made it into English as a (lower-case) Continue Reading →
Two Words In the entry for the Latin noun caput in Wheelock (ch. 11), several English derivatives are listed. Here are two good ones to add to your arsenal:occi Continue Reading →
Try and fly An interesting little column in the Detroit Free Press (which should please Eric) notes too things that have occurred to me. The first (the derivation Continue Reading →