Can't believe it's been a year since my last post. Wanted to share this link that was in this week's Word a Day weekly compend...

All languages borrow words from languages with which they come in contact; English is unique in the extent to which it has done so. Henry ...

Ever wonder about the a- tacked in front of some verbs? Where did it originate? Does it (or did it) have any special meaning? We're f...

Here in Saskatchewan , we are coming up to a provincial election. Each district in which a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA for short...

Linguists class words as either concrete or grammatical. Concrete words represent objects, actions, feelings, etc - things that can be named...

These two words appear related in that they both have to do with death. A coroner is a government official who determines the cause of deat...

This post will deal with true Folk Etymology, where an unfamiliar word is changed into a more familiar form, or as Anatoly Lieberman puts it...

The English language developed in England so to understand the history of English we must explore the history of England . The earliest in...

This interesting pair of words raises a few questions: Why does woman end with man ? What does the wo mean? Does woman mean “man with a w...

Here are my definitions: Etymology is the science of word origins. Folk Etymology is the art of guessing word origins. This is ...

The word litter has three seemingly unrelated meanings: a stretcher used to carry a person lying down; debris lying on the ground like hambu...