Courtney Tobin

I love ancient languages like Greek and Latin, but modern ones are pretty interesting, too! So working with the written word every day and helping Verblio customers get the content they need is really enjoyable. If I’m not reading Homer or Horace, I’m usually figuring out how everything at Verblio can be even more awesome.

Scintillating Synonyms: Potatoes, Cream Puffs, and Murphies, Oh My!

By Courtney Tobin / October 4, 2013

Welcome to your Friday #WOOF Compendium! Lots of goodies today, both literal and figurative: murphies, cream puffs, and Thoreau.

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A Cosmological WOOF Roundup

By Courtney Tobin / September 20, 2013

We had an unprecedented amount of rain here in Boulder, Colorado, last week, which resulted in a destructive flood. All of us at the home office of BlogMutt are fine,…

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BlogMutt and the 2013 Boulder Flood

By Courtney Tobin / September 15, 2013

In his Metaphysics, Aristotle explains that the Pre-Socratic philosopher, Thales (c. 624 BCE), thought that the first principle of all things is water. Well, here in Boulder, Colorado, thousands of…

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It’s Time for a Weekly WOOF Round-Up!

By Courtney Tobin / September 6, 2013

Welcome to the latest edition of our Weekly WOOF Roundup, wherein we recap all of the WOrds of the day, from the dictionaries OF the day (WOOF!).

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WOOF RoundUp and Classical Wisdom

By Courtney Tobin / August 30, 2013

Welcome to the weekly Friday WOOF compendium. This week gave us an incredible bon mot, gnothi seauton (Greek: γνῶθι σεαυτόν): know thyself. It’s one of the most useful dicta I’ve…

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#WOOF Love is in the Air!

By Courtney Tobin / August 23, 2013

Happy Friday, dear readers! Friday is the day to reflect on all of the illuminating #WOOFs from the week, and most of all, to show some Word Love! And after…

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