In words likeare, andore, the silent final e does not affect the pronunciation or provide a missing vowel, or keep a word from ending in v or u. This is the e that Mrs. Spalding (Romalda Spalding,The Writing Road to Reading) calls “no-job e.” Like Everest, it’s there. The ...
That first book of mine, a comic memoir about growing up in a farm town of 300 in Indiana in the 1960s, was sold in what is often called a “bidding war,” a term I loathe. While the process is much more like an auction, the military language is used because the egos of both t...
When he deposed and excommunicated Arius and his cohorts in the year 318 AD the Bishop Alexander of Alexandria sent out a letter to the whole Catholic world explaining his reasons for taking this drastic step because Arius and his men were using deceitful tactics to gain the sympathy of many ...
it is important to mention that we requested the informed consent of the parents for the participation of each child. In addition, the participants were identified using pseudonyms, in which their gender but not their real names were maintained. The fictitious names began with the letter of the...