@jeffreyjcohen@ltelkins My favorite -en plural is OSAXen, the plural of OSAX, the acronymic name for Applescript modules. I suppose it formed this very old way because of the difficulty of pronouncing OSAXes and the analogy to "oxen."
@jeffreyjcohen@ltelkins That's a series of successive pluralizing suffixes, each added as the previous plural ceased to sound clearly plural. Some regional dialects of English now have "childrens," so the process continues.
Professor of history Catherine O'Donnell spoke with @azcentral for the final episode in their Arizona HERstory series, discussing Sister Clare Dunn, the only nun to serve in the Arizona Legislature. #ASUHumanitiesow.ly/jYwr50Nthce
@jeffreyjcohen Finally, one day he relented and answered them.
And to this day, there's an entire branch of my family that refers to butter as "schmutz."
@jeffreyjcohen My great-grandfather, an immigrant from German-speaking Switzerland, only spoke English at home (even though his wife was also German-speaking). His grandkids always used to bug him by asking "What's the German word for ____?" around the dinner table.
@jeffreyjcohen That's clear enough that you can see the reversal of order of the spectrum in the secondary band—something described by Aristotle (Meteorologica 3.4). The dark band in the middle was described about a century later by Alexander of Aphrodisias in his commentary on Aristotle.
During Humanities Week, @ASUSILC hosted the event “Onigiri Action,” where students and staff got to create their own onigiri, a dish that originates from Japan. The event, in partnerships with @tablefor2_usa, also raised awareness on food insecurity. ow.ly/WRZ950LuJ8y
@jeffreyjcohen Palladas calls her (well, Τύχη) ἄστατε δαῖμον, since she was μηδὲ τύχης τῆς σῆς ὕστατα φεισαμένη (AP 9.183) “inconstant goddess, in the end not spared even by her own fortune.” This, after her temple had been turned into a tavern.
@jeffreyjcohen@ltelkins@DanteMicheaux When I teach my "Alexander and His Empires" class, we do a whole day on ancient Greek math poetry.
WE NEED MORE MATH POETRY
@jeffreyjcohen@ltelkins@DanteMicheaux Eratosthenes did an awful lot—so much that he was derisively known as "Beta" (= "second place," essentially the same as our "jack of all trades, master of none"). He was the first to solve for doubling the cube, as we know from a POEM he wrote describing the technique.