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Rebekah Olson
Mar 23, 20225 min read
Conditional Love
The conditional doesn't get enough love - let's change that with a fun, musical look at this mood.
Rebekah Olson
Mar 15, 20224 min read
Hey, where are you from?
How we politely ask questions about a person’s nationality and home.
Rebekah Olson
Mar 9, 20222 min read
A Tense Situation: Present Perfect Continuous
This is the second post in my segment, "A Tense Situation", which delves into the exciting world of the English verb system. What is a...
Rebekah Olson
Mar 9, 20222 min read
What's a Preposition, Anyway?
A brief look into which words count as prepositions and when and how we use them
Rebekah Olson
Dec 17, 20212 min read
Indigenous Languages & The Climate
To fight climate change, we need to adopt an indigenously inclusive view of humanity’s place in the natural world.
Rebekah Olson
Nov 19, 20213 min read
Native American Language Loss
To kick off our series on Native American languages, let's take a look at the loss of languages once spoken throughout North America.
Rebekah Olson
Nov 3, 20213 min read
🎃 Halloween's Celtic Roots
Finishing off our Halloween-themed articles, let's talk about the holiday's Celtic, pagan, witchy roots. Origin Story The Halloween we...
Rebekah Olson
Oct 21, 20213 min read
The Linguistic History of Halloween 🎃
With Halloween just around the corner, let's take a look at the highly-contested origin of the spooky holiday.
Rebekah Olson
Oct 15, 20213 min read
4 Halloween Word Origins 🎃
With Halloween just around the corner, let's take a look at the origin stories, or etymologies, of some of the words we've come to associate
Rebekah Olson
Mar 3, 20211 min read
Words of Sustainability Missing from English
The words we use to talk about the environment affect how we engage with it.
Rebekah Olson
Jan 1, 20212 min read
21 Language Facts for 2021 - Part 1
Let's kick the new year off with part one of our series on sweet facts about language you might not yet know!
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