George LongleyDec 15, 20211 min read Dr. George's old-fashioned fancies!ERISTIC Studying Plato as an undergraduate, I came across the term, 'eristic argument'. What this means is a debate that is argumentative...
George LongleyDec 14, 20212 min readSemantic TyranniesIn a recent article, 'Just Words', inspired by Thucydides, I looked at how human beings can change words’ meaning to fit new situations,...
George LongleyNov 22, 20212 min readThe Journey of Latin and GreekWordy Weekly XXXVI You may remember that this is part II of the wordy weeklies looking at Latin and Greek derivatives in languages other...
George LongleyNov 11, 20211 min readTurning over a new LEAF!Wordy Weekly Extra A Wordy Weekly extra. Biological terms related to leaves (and this is just part 1): CHLOROPHYLL: you might think the...
George LongleyNov 9, 20213 min readWordy Weekly XXXVAncient Derivatives Outside of English Words in other languages that come from Latin or Greek this week, and one from another Ancient...
George LongleyOct 20, 20211 min readUtopia - an ideal place?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...
George LongleyOct 14, 20212 min readDr George’s Old-fashioned Fancies IIWordy 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...
George LongleyOct 4, 20214 min readHUE do you think you are? Colours from Classics.Wordy Weekly XXXII Latin and Greek both have some beautiful words for colours and some (well, quite a few actually) have made their way...
George LongleySep 25, 20214 min readDr George’s Friends’ Old-fashioned Fancies (Wordy Weekly XXXI)Following last week’s post, I had some jolly messages from friends (yes, I do have friends…despite the puns!) who offered their own...
George LongleySep 17, 20212 min readDr George’s Old-Fashioned FanciesWordy Weekly XXX One slightly mad classics-related love of mine is the fact that it can introduce you to words, no longer used or...
George LongleyAug 13, 20212 min readWordy Weekly XXIX - Wordy LinkiesA slightly different approach to the Wordy Weekly this week. Wordy Links. In Latin fero and in Greek φέρω mean ‘I bring, I bear, I...
George LongleyAug 8, 20212 min readWordy Weekly XXVIII - Something FishyThis week, we are going to look at the linguistic journey of a familiar modern phrase, a favourite dish actually, from its Latin...
George LongleyAug 2, 20212 min readWordy Weekly XXVIIWe continue the biology/animal flavour this week. We start with Latin this week. BOVINE, CANINE, EQUINE, OVINE, VULPINE, LEPORINE,...
George LongleyJul 24, 20214 min readWordy Weekly XXVI, pars II (24/07/2021)Following yesterday’s video, I bring you the second part of this week’s Wordy Weekly, marking BloggusClassicus’ half-birthday. Today’s...
George LongleyJul 23, 20211 min readWordy Weekly XXVI, pars IMy first video! Wordy Weekly this week will be animal themed.
George LongleyJul 21, 20212 min readWORDY WEEKLY XXVW, 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...
George LongleyJul 12, 20212 min readWordy Weekly XXIV‘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...
George LongleyJul 5, 20213 min readWordy Weekly XXIIIThis 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...
George LongleyJun 26, 20212 min readWordy Weekly XXII‘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...
George LongleyJun 20, 20212 min readWordy Weekly XXISo 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...
