Grammaticarum

I find that the Ore-Ida Potatoes Twitter account (don't ask how I got there) has just published an absurd piece of false etymology: ...

I'm working on a paper on a late Roman statute called the Lex Rivi Hiberiensis .  Tonight I settled down to start reading other laws in...

Hispanophone purists are probably concerned about the creep of English into their language; one never sees signs in New York for alquilar (...

You can now tell your friends that you know a dirty word in ancient Greek.  Apparently, in sophisticated writing the Greeks would never use...

"Whenever he felt he just couldn't take another chart or equation, he would switch over to verse, and vice versa." --Stanis...

One of the statutes of Numa , from Rome in 7th century B.C., is translated at the link as "If a man is killed by a thunderbolt the p...

I'm taking a few classes in dead languages at Columbia University, and reading much more literary analysis by Classics and English depa...