Latin caecum , meaning 'blind', has come directly into English as caecum/cecum (n) and caecal/cecal (adj). There is not a separate prefix for English words.

What's your point? I made an implicit point: it is not cognitively productive to remember pronounciation for every word. What learners should be taught: a set of heuristics to find possible pronunciations for a word. Mastery of phonetics (or

Vctory: Here is a site that has analyzed words by frequency of use and posted many lists for study. There is an American English and British English list. http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/lists/l/ The related words you listed all have

I teach some students Japanese in English. Could you correct that, please? This article explains an honorific expressiono of Japanese. Thanks. Best wishes, Lucas == In Japanese, there are 3 differnt kinds of ways to

Guys, I'm writing my MA thesis about novel formations (so-called nonce words) in both Polish and English, and since I'm Polish I cannot come up with English examples just as freely as I 'produce' Polish words. What I am exactly

Hallo! I have a question- I am looking for an overview of rules for word formation processes in English (like a sheet or sth).. with the most important pre- and suffixes to build adverbs, adjectives, nouns, verbs.. It shouldn't be too

It seems to me that reading comprehension skills are very difficult for many English learners. What aspects would you like to emphasise in teaching reading comprehension? Or should it be taught at all? Is it enough if students just read on their

I sometimes feel hard to figure out the sex of a first name. Is there any general way to tell a first name is for males or females? No, there isn't. The reason is that English is a crazy mix of many languages Anglo-Saxon, Latin, French, German

Hello I have a question regarding the OED definition of the word "predicate" It says:" The statement made about a ... i don`t understand what is meant with the logical copula and the personal suffix. why is it expressed by this? Is

Seen in the wild (in another newsgroup): "I had both my primary and secondary drives die on me within in a 24 hr basis." I was wondering if that would happen: the "on a...basis" fad metastasizing to nonrepetitive contexts.