David, a lawyer from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, subscribes to the Lexis Legal News Brief, and wonders about the connection between lex meaning “law,” and the lex which refers to “words.” While lexis refers to the total stock of...
Kids often imitate French or Chinese speakers without knowing the language. But have you ever tried to imitate the English language or speak fake English? There are lots of YouTube videos that give an idea of what English sounds like to native...
The words respiration and inspiration have the same Latin root, spirare, which means “to breathe.” The word conspire also shares that etymological root. But what does conspiring have to do with breathing? The source of this term is notion that...
What event in life introduced you to a whole new vocabulary? Going away to college, having a child, renovating a home, or even getting diagnosed with a medical condition often exposes us to huge bundles of new words. If you’re renovating a...
What crawled over your liver? This Pennsylvania Dutch idiom means “What’s the matter with you?” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Pennsylvania Dutch Saying” Here is something that we haven’t...
Hannah in Denver teaches at a Jewish high school with students from several countries, and many of them write by school or by someone’s house where standard formal English expects at school or at someone’s house. Prepositions rarely match neatly...