‘Rrrrrrr’, it’s pirate week! No, just Wordy Weekly XX (wow, Bloggus Classicus is twenty weeks old!). We’ve reached ‘R’. GREEK The Greek...

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,...

‘K’ this week. ‘K’ is an interesting letter. VERY few words exist in Latin, beginning with ‘K’, and only one yields a derivative, which...

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,...