The Root Of English - The Enlightenment

The tendencies established during the Renaissance continued throughout the 18th century – the period of the ‘Enlightenment’. The works of writers like Dr Samuel Johnson and Edward Gibbon are packed with Latin- and Greek-based words that bear witness to their classical educations. By www.manuscriptedit.com

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Learn Thai: Learn To Speak Thai, Easy!!

The main problem with learning Thai is that the basis of the language is not European-based. English and the other Euro languages have Latin, Greek, Viking, etc., roots; Thai does not, so you have to memorise hundreds, if not thousands, of strange sounds. This is difficult, unless you use some sort of memory trigger.

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Journal or blog of vocabulary entries to Word Info site

An effort to explain daily entries to the English vocabulary site which organizes words which are derived from Latin and Greek sources into word units, or related families of English words. Such vocabulary units help users to see many of the related words which belong to the same roots, prefixes, or suffixes; so people can find family members.

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Word of the Day: Lexidiem

n. sing. lek-si’-dee-im. (preferred) lek-si-dee’-im (altern. accepted) 1. Word of the day. [Modern American English, from Greek lexis (word) and Latin diem (day), reflecting the hodgepodge of international roots that make up Modern American English words].

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