Daily Archives: February 13, 2016

The Los Angeles County Library is celebrating the Oxford English Dictionary during the month of March. Explore this rich and exciting website: LFLA.ORG/OED

A lot of vocabulary has been eliminated from the current version of the SAT tests. An amusing article in The Economist incorporates the lost vocabulary into a story: http://www.theworldin.com/article/10654/elegy-lost-verbiage What do you think about the elimination of this vocabulary?

The modal auxiliaries carry a lot of weight, as became evident in the Paris conference on climate change: http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2015/12/15/shall-should-and-the-fate-of-the-earth/