How do you pronounce Dawn?
Today on Jeopardy there was a category on homophones, words that sound alike, but have different meanings. Here’s the clue that threw me: a homophone that can mean either a high-ranking member of a Mafia family, or the rising of the sun. No wonder I missed that one. In the dialect of standard English that […]
Handwriting is NOT Irrelevant
Learning to form the letters of the alphabet with one’s own hands is the foundation of literacy.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Dickens!
Born this day in 1812, Charles Dickens died on 9 June 1870, having producing dozens of novels and short works, many of which are still read today. Here’s a list of his works at Every Author. Great Expectations is the novel now taught ad nauseum in the schools, but the book of choice with English […]