You've probably heard of Braille, the tactile writing system that was designed for blind and visually impaired people. But, unless you are visually impaired yourself or work with visually impaired people, there is a high chance you've not heard of Moon. I couldn't find a way to replicate the alphabet myself, so here is an example from deafblind.com (linked below) Moon is an embossed writing sy# in 1845 by Dr William Moon. It's based on the standard Latin alphabet, but aims to

If you are an English speaker, you already know some Latin; let me show you! This time we are going to take a look at words that have their roots in Latin verbs! As with the nouns and adjectives, some English words come from different forms on the following verbs, but to make my life easier and to make the list more manageable for you, I have only included the present active form. English Latin Accident accidens - a chance occurrence Ambulance ambulo - to walk Audio audio -

If you are an English speaker, you already know some Latin; let me show you! In part one of this mini-series, we covered 70 English words that are related to Latin nouns; now it's time for the adjectives! As with the last post, I will provide a very brief definition of the Latin words when their meanings differ from those of the English words. I am also only providing the dictionary form of the Latin word, even though the English word is derived from a different form. This is

If you are an English speaker, you already know some Latin; let me show you! Editing Signa here: I misjudged how many words this would actually be, so here are the nouns. I'll do adjectives, verbs and other words in separate posts and compile the lists into one large downloadable list. I hope these 70 words will keep you occupied for now. I'm not going to pretend that I can list all of the English words that have Latin roots; that would be a large undertaking even for me. How

We need to stop gatekeeping knowledge and make it all as accessible as possible. Until that happens, i'll share my favourite accessible sources with you.

Bornite is also known as Peacock Ore.

Good evening, Nooklings, and happy disability pride month! Today I'd like to talk to you about how my disabilities affect me as a student, researcher, historian, and writer. Hopefully this will explain why even when I plan to have scenting posts out by a specific time, there are often delays. Let's start there, with blog posts and other things for the website. I am visually impaired, dyslexic, autistic, and I have fibromyalgia and a few mental health disorders. Each of these

Book Two: Telemachus Puts His Big Boy Tunic On (The Odyssey, Book by Book)

Book Two: Telemachus Puts His Big Boy Tunic On (The Odyssey, Book by Book)

Book One: Some Exposition and Telemachus the Man-Child (The Odyssey, Book by Book)