- August 22, 2012If the key to a word's meaning is its etymology, then pacifier and peacemaker should mean exactly the same thing.…
- July 6, 2012Here's a great quote from Adam Nicolson's God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible: "A puritan is such…
- June 13, 2012Argument Learning a language after childhood is very difficult, so difficult that language learners require powerful motivation. Why then do…
- April 9, 2012Note: I have written a somewhat lengthier and more definitive post on this topic for the Logos Bible Software blog.…
- April 4, 2012Wit, today, is Frasier Crane. (Or so I recall from my sad days as a surreptitious sitcom watcher in the…
- February 16, 2012Do you ever feel a pang of regret when a certain memory flits across your mind? I won't begin to…