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Wednesday, August 7, 2024

In Which Tom Learns His Lesson

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 by Anne White  In English, a sentence stretches from left to right…A writer composes a sentence with subject and verb at the beginning, f...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Babble On

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by Anne White Near the end of C. S. Lewis’s novel That Hideous Strength , the speeches being given at a college banquet turn into word sal...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

Plutarch comments on things, words, and learning languages

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"But I my selfe that dwell in a poore litle towne, and yet doe remayne there willingly least it should become lesse : whilest I wa...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Plutarch: North gets to the gut

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by Anne White In working on the revised study notes for Plutarch's Life of Philopoemen, I came across a funny example of why North's...
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