After I wrote about CONSIDER yesterday, I started thinking about the three Latin words for "star": ASTRUM, SĪDUS, and STELLA.

STELLA is the most productive of the three, and here are its many descendants in modern Romance languages. Can you think of any examples of STELLA in English?

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Feeling under the weather today, so let's look at SICK.

SICK comes from Old English SĒOC and has a number of relatives in other Germanic languages. However, linguists are unsure whether SICK has distant relatives elsewhere in the Indo-European language family. How mysterious...

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We have a second Instagram post!
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First post on Instagram. We’re expanding slowly but surely.
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First attempt at a banner and a logo. Let me know how they look on your end!

(He said, gazing with melancholy at his battery-challenged iPhone 8.)