The Latin root wordmortmeans “death.” So as to not bemortified the next time you encounter an English word with the word rootmortin it, let’s beat that root to “death” by learning it cold! When you study Greek mythology, you learn that the Olympian gods and goddesses were immortal...
Lucubrationcame to mean "hard study" because it originally meant study done by lamplight, and in a world without electric lights, such study was likely to be the kind of hard work that would only a dedicated student like Abe Lincoln would make a habit of. The word has a literary feel ...
My approach to the theme will be oblique, my examples successively touching on the frivolous and then focusing on the unpalatable: first Lovecraft's Necronomicon and then "snuff movies." The Necronomicon, H.P. Lovecraft's best-known fictional manuscript, started to exist in the 1960s as a ...
Lucubrationcame to mean "hard study" because it originally meant study done by lamplight, and in a world without electric lights, such study was likely to be the kind of hard work that would only a dedicated student like Abe Lincoln would make a habit of. The word has a literary feel ...