Category Archives: Language

States vs. Actions

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Kate

So, one of this month’s resolutions (in my year of resolutions) was to continue playing Health Month. I updated my rules so that this month I’m keeping a food journal, drinking 62 glasses of water a week and eating greens … Continue reading →

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Notorious!

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Kate

So, In the class that I teach last week, we were learning about semantics and how senses of a word can change. We had the word, ‘notorious’ as an example. Now, the OED tells us that ‘notorious’ means, “a. Of … Continue reading →

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Verner’s Law!

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Kate

In the class I am teaching, we have been talking about Grimm’s and Verner’s laws (or the first sound shift, if you will.) I was looking for some more examples to show my students and I found this: Amazing!

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Victory!

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Kate

So, I feel like I had a little victory yesterday. I was walking from one part of campus to another with new of the students in the class I’m teaching on the history of English and we were chatting. In … Continue reading →

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Oh, sweetie, not that kind of love.

Posted on February 1, 2010 by Kate

So, I’m teaching a class on the Roots of English. Today, we looked at the morphology of English. One of the books I’m using is English Vocabulary Elements. And, at some point in the book it mentions that the morpheme … Continue reading →

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