Here’s a sentence you’d be unlikely to encounter nowadays. “It was noscible in the village that the oporopolist’s stall was often closed because of his fondness for riviation.” You’d be unlikely to encounter it because “noscible,” “oporopolist,” and “riviation” are all words that were once in general use in English, but haven’t been heard from… Continue reading

Although the ancient Egyptians were as far in the past for the ancient Greeks as those Greeks are to us, some of the ideas of their astrologers have stuck around as solidly as the Pyramids. Those astrologers calculated that there were two days every month when you definitely shouldn’t start anything important. Don’t begin a… Continue reading