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As luck would have it…

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…I’m holding a miserable, feverish toddler in my arms who very well may have 1) another ear infection or 2) strep throat. Difficult to diagnose when one is dealing with a mute toddler (mute except for the pitiful whining, that is. Poor baby!)

But I keep good on my word and don’t want to leave you with nothing, so I’m going to direct you to my review of Heat Wave by “Richard Castle” and ask you this:

Have you ever learned a valuable lesson in how not to write while reading? What was the lesson?

I look forward to your answers while I nurse my sick baby back to health.

English Word Origins

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I’m a visual person, so I appreciate graphs, especially color coded ones! But I’m also a design person, so color schemes get to me. While their color scheme makes me shudder a bit, I am digging this visual representation of English word origins!

Read the original study here. If you hover over the highlighted words, you can see the origin of the word. Click a word, and you’ll be taken to its entry in the etymology dictionary. Pretty nifty stuff!

Interested in English word origins? Did you know that Old English (that big pink chunk of the pie) has Germanic roots? Be sure to read my post on Anglo-Saxon versus Latinate Diction.