ERISTIC Studying Plato as an undergraduate, I came across the term, 'eristic argument'. What this means is a debate that is argumentative...

In a recent article, 'Just Words', inspired by Thucydides, I looked at how human beings can change words’ meaning to fit new situations,...

Wordy Weekly XXXVI You may remember that this is part II of the wordy weeklies looking at Latin and Greek derivatives in languages other...

Wordy Weekly Extra A Wordy Weekly extra. Biological terms related to leaves (and this is just part 1): CHLOROPHYLL: you might think the...

Ancient Derivatives Outside of English Words in other languages that come from Latin or Greek this week, and one from another Ancient...

Wordy Weekly XXXIV If you were asked to define the word ‘Utopia’, you would probably say that means ‘an ideal society/place’ and was the...

Wordy Weekly XXXIII Do you know a good punning put down? I do indeed, there is no better put down than a Latin deponent verb. (Dr...

Wordy Weekly XXXII Latin and Greek both have some beautiful words for colours and some (well, quite a few actually) have made their way...

Following last week’s post, I had some jolly messages from friends (yes, I do have friends…despite the puns!) who offered their own...

Wordy Weekly XXX One slightly mad classics-related love of mine is the fact that it can introduce you to words, no longer used or...

A slightly different approach to the Wordy Weekly this week. Wordy Links. In Latin fero and in Greek φέρω mean ‘I bring, I bear, I...

This week, we are going to look at the linguistic journey of a familiar modern phrase, a favourite dish actually, from its Latin...

We continue the biology/animal flavour this week. We start with Latin this week. BOVINE, CANINE, EQUINE, OVINE, VULPINE, LEPORINE,...

Following yesterday’s video, I bring you the second part of this week’s Wordy Weekly, marking BloggusClassicus’ half-birthday. Today’s...

My first video! Wordy Weekly this week will be animal themed.

W, X, Y, Z this week. A mixed bag this week. · W…well…there aren’t any. · X, only in Greek. · Y, well…there aren’t any, · and Z, mostly...

‘V’ week. No ‘V’ in Greek, so this is Latin’s bumper week. GREEK But there is still material for Greek. If the Greeks didn’t have a...

This is going to be a very UUUUsfull week. (Start as you mean to go on!) Yes, we have reached ‘U’. An interesting letter, both for Greek...

‘T’ for two, and two for ‘T’. Let me take you on a tantalising TAU of… All right, enough of the puns. We are at week ‘T’ (but I like my...

So super that we sit in scintillating…all right, sorry, we have come to ‘s’. Plenty of material this week. GREEK i) SEISMIC: ‘to do with...