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CLAS224 Word Elements
Department of Classics
Monmouth College
COURSE DOCUMENTS and LINKS TO NIFTY
WEBSITES
TABLE OF CONTENTS (click to go)
Course Materials /
Etymology Project Materials /
Dictionary Unit / History
of English Unit / Latin Element Unit /
Loan Words and Phrases / Greek Element Unit
/ Nifty Websites
You will also find some useful material on scientific
words at the website for CLAS225
Scientific Terminology.
Course Materials
Summary of Goals and Requirements / Schedule
of Readings and Assignments / Tom
Sienkewicz' Writing Guidelines /
Mid-Course Evaluation /
Sample Grid
Quiz / Sample Test on Latin
Elements / Format
of Latin Element Exam / Sample Test on
Greek Elements /
Format of Second
(Greek) Unit Exam
Etymology Project Materials
Etymology Project
/
Some
Sample Etymology Projects
/ Dictionary Entry
Analysis Exercise / Dictionary
Comparison worksheet
/ Dictionary Surveys /
Electronic Word Search
Assignment
Dictionary Unit:
Etymology /
Etymology
on AboutHomework.com / Latin
Guide Janet Burns on etymology / Oxford
English Dictionary: A Description / A
Sampling of Dictionaries / Some
Recent Dictionary Acquisitions / Web
of On-Line Dictionaries / Using Electronic
Dictionaries /
Instructions for Using Electronic Dictionaries / World
Dictionary Exercise / Electronic Dictionaries at
LibrarySpot.com / Important Terms in Ayers
/ Important
Terms in Ayers with Definitions /
Visual Thesaurus
History of English
Unit:
Power of English
Video / Chaucer's Canterbury
Tales
/ Words
of the 20th Century /
The History of English in Ten Minutes - for iPod/iPhone by The Open University
Latin Element Unit:
Word Elements and Their
Uses /
Bases /
Prefixes
/ Suffixes
/
Latin Loan Words in
Ayers / Latin
Loan Words in Ayers with Definitions / Latin Phrases in Ayers
/ Latin
Phrases in Ayers with Definitions / Passion
in Parentheses /What Is the Plural
of 'Penis'? / Rules for Definition
/
Onomatopoeia /
Important Terms in Lederer's Word
Circus / Important
Terms in Lederer's Word Circus with Definitions /
Latin Prepositions / Latin Prefix Chart /
Assimilation of Prefixes /
Abbreviations / Acronymns /
Acronymns on Libraryspot.com
/ Internet Emoticons, Smileys and
Abbreviations / Three Morphologically Identical Bases:
PAR- / Animalia Romana
/ Independent
Twins:
Definition / Independent
Twins: List / Adjective-Forming
Latin Suffixes / Noun-Forming
Latin Suffixes / Verb-Forming
Latin Suffixes / Specialization
and Generalization /
Degeneration of Meaning / Degeneration and Ethnic
Stereotypes /
Sample
Latin Unit Exam /
Brand Names vs. Generic Names / Technospeak / Some Nursery Rhymes
in Disguise / How
College Professors Speak /
Christmas Carols the Hard Way /
Clipped Words /
Totes presh:Why we love and loathe clipped
words (Erin McKean) / Blends / Lewis Carroll's
"Jabberwocky" / Etymology
Quiz
Loan Words and Phrases:
Latin /
Greek / French /
German / Yiddish / Italian
/ Spanish
/ English
Loan Words in Other Languages /
Arabic Loan Words in Spanish /
Internationally Used French Phrases /
Greek Element Unit:
List of
Greek Words in Ayers / Greek
Suffixes /
Tautology /
Reduplication / Eponymy
/ Eponymy ID
/ Surnames
/ English
Personal Names from Greek / English Personal Names
from Latin / Words from Literature
/ An Anthology of
-ologies / Phobias
/ Sports Terms / Sample Greek Exam /
Format of Second (Greek) Unit
Exam /
Solecism
Nifty Websites:
World Wide Words /
My
Word! / ROOTS OF ENGLISH
/ http://www.fun-with-words.com
/
Etymologic, The Toughest Word Game on the Web: http://www.intuitive.com/cgi-local/etymologic.cgi
SOME NIFTY WEBSITES on
CLASSICS
This material has been published on the web by
Prof. Tom Sienkewicz for his students at Monmouth College.
If you have any
questions, you can contact him at toms@monm.edu.
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