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Saturday, April 27, 2013
SAT Used Invented Language in the 1920s
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In 1926, the standardized test known as the SAT was first administered. The version of the test was different from what it is now (of course...
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Forensics and Assessment of Suicide Risk
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USAToday posted a story about a researcher who is working to teach a computer to assess the suicide risk levels of patients; he has a databa...
Monday, March 4, 2013
Hawaiian Sign Language
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A recent article on CNN discussed Hawaiian Sign Language, a language still used by only about 40 people, most of whom are elderly. Research...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
IdiomSite
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I stumbled across a webpage with idioms, and it made me start to question how I would define some common English idioms. The webpage is Idio...
Monday, February 25, 2013
Atlas of True Names
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Thanks to a student who shared this website with the other Dr. Sams, I think I know what I want for Christmas this year--a map from Atlas of...
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Visuwords: Graphical dictionary
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I've seen visual thesauri and dictionaries floating around the web, but I think the best one I've seen (or at least the one I've...
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Great Vowel Shift: Dinosaur Comics
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In History of the English Language, we were covering the Great Vowel Shift. My students asked why it occurred, and I had the pleasure of tel...
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