Category Archives: Language

Living His Testimonies

Posted on May 4, 2018 by stayingfaithful

I want to explore Psalm 119. Not all in one go! But I have been appreciating it for some time now, and recently I bumped into someone who had gone one better than me and memorized the Psalm in Hebrew. … Continue reading →

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How does the French ‘jour’ come from Latin ‘dies’?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by stayingfaithful

I stumbled across this nice, clear explanation in Boswell’s Life of Johnson today (p.416 in my Everyman edition): We talked of languages, Johnson observed that Leibnitz had made some progress in a work, tracing all languages up to the Hebrew: … Continue reading →