Tag 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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hwaet?!?!

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Kate

So, I love when two things I think are cool intersect.  For example, Gryphon Perkins has created a sock pattern that includes some text from Beowulf.  Awesome.  These socks must totally happen. I enjoy knitting socks. Even when the pattern … Continue reading →

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Nanook of the North

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Kate

Studying idioms, I’ve become increasingly aware of a number of constructions that I have no flipping idea of where they came from. Some idioms have some interesting histories from my searches and some of them have histories shrouded in mystery. … 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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