Posts Tagged ‘Latin’

Procrastination stinks.

March 9, 2008

Procrastination stinks. Did you know that fraternity and sorority are directly from frater and soror, brother and sister in Latin? Also, i.e. and e.g. are not the same thing. That could come in handy later.

Album

January 23, 2008

An album is a blank white book with spaces to put pictures in. It comes from the Latin album meaning a blank white writing tablet, which is in turn from the Latin albus meaning ‘white’.