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.
Monday: Comin’ through the rye, adapted by Burns, 1782 (1970 Dictionary of World Poetry) — Gin a body meet a body / Comin’ through the rye / Gin a body…
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What would your work week be without your hebdomadal (consider that one your bonus word of the day! From the Latin hebdomadalis, weekly, which comes from the Greek ἑπτά (hepta),…
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Welcome to your Friday #WOOF Compendium! Lots of goodies today, both literal and figurative: murphies, cream puffs, and Thoreau.
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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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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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