I found this fun quiz to test your knowledge of words that come from Greek and Roman mythology. Try it and let me know how you did!
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This is a short post to let you know that Merriam-Webster has a great Word of the Day today. Duende is the power to attract through personal magnetism and charm. Coco Cuddles, my Tibetan Spaniel puppy, has so much duende that people in cars stop in the middle of the street to admire her!
On Saturday I won the Kentucky Derby Festival’s 23rd annual spelling bee! It was an exciting moment for me and I felt honored to be on stage with so many other great spellers. Congratulations to all the county champions who competed on Saturday!
10-Year-Old wins Derby Festival spelling bee
Louisville girl wins KY Derby Festival’s Spelling Bee
If you would like to read more about the spellers competing this year go to
https://secure.spellingbee.com/public/spellers/speller_roster
If you enjoyed my post on cephalopods, you might be interested in exploring the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s website.
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals-and-experiences/exhibits/tentacles
A lot of linguists believe that Proto-Indo-European was the ursprache* of Indo-European languages, but we actually don’t know what Proto-Indo-European sounded like. In the link below, a linguist at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Andrew Byrd, gives his best approximation of what our ancestors may have spoken thousands of years ago. When I listened to it, I was amazed that someone could recreate the language! Let me know what you think!
http://www.archaeology.org/exclusives/articles/1302-proto-indo-european-schleichers-fable
*I wrote about the word ursprache here: https://thewordexplorer.wordpress.com/?s=Ursprache
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