by Mike Simpson | Dec 10, 2022 | Education, English, Vocabulary, Writing
What is the Word of the Year? What searches trended? And what do these results tell us about ourselves and out society? Have you heard of this process of identifying a single word that sums up the year? Whether of not these words represent the zeitgeist or not, the...
by Mike Simpson | Jan 23, 2022 | COVID-19, Culture, English, Health, Vocabulary
I stumbled upon an interesting article about the “Word of the Year: for 2021 and I wasn’t surprised what it was: vaccine. Vaccine was on the lips of millions, and eventually into the arms of millions too, including me and my family in Toronto, Canada. It...
by Mike Simpson | Oct 2, 2021 | Culture, English, Languages
What are the roots of Latin in English? How common is it? Latin is a fundamentally important historical language that has contributed to the development of many other languages around the world. According to dictionary.com: “Over 60 percent of all English words...
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