Now this is an interesting week (hang on, they’re ALL interesting). Greek has no Q’, so what do we do (huh, rhyme not intended)? You will...

Gone for a ‘P’. Okay, bad pun. But, yes we have reached ‘P’. Bumper Greek week! Why? 1. Greek has its own letter ‘P’ = π. (is a circular...

Greek i) ONTOLOGY: ‘the study of being and the essence or defining core of things’. Technically, the word comes from late Latin...

Another medley this week. Greek up first: GREEK i) NECROPHILIA: This gruesome word means literally ‘corpse love (including sexual)’, and...

We are half-way through the alphabet. Several interesting words today. GREEK: i) MAGIC: the word needs no definition: ‘making things...

So, we come to ‘L’, we are almost halfway through. i) LUDICROUS: this charming English word means ‘silly’, ‘absurd’, and ‘causing...

January - the name comes from the Roman god Janus (Ianus in Latin), the two-faced god, who foresaw the comings and goings from houses,...

THREE for the price of one this week: one Latin, one Greek, and a suffix! i) INNOCENT: ‘not guilty’, ‘not responsible’, ‘naïve’, or ‘not...

F Latin only this week short article on ‘Why no Greek?’ i) FULMINATE: ‘to rage, berate, bluster, denounce’ – this rather nice, and too...

Word Up, everyone! i) DATA: we start with Latin again. I was recently asked by a friend and former colleague whether one should say ‘the...

One Latin, one Greek again this week. We start with buckle. i) BUCKLE – this word’s linguistic journey from Latin is an interesting...

Two for the price of 1 today! i) Anhydrous - containing no water. The term comes from Greek, as do a lot of our science terms in English....

Salvete, omnes! Here is the first entry in the Wordy Weekly section of the blog. Today, we begin with a hybrid word, which is half Latin,...