Friday, August 19, 2011
quicko: harold holt
Former Prime Minister of Australia. Only one they actually misplaced entirely. Bill Bryson tells it much better than I, but suffice it to say they've never yet found him. I also understand he makes an excellent object lesson when teaching past modals of possibility -- "He could have been eaten by a shark," "He might have been a Russian spy all along" or even "But of course! He's just still off chucking a sickie!"
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I'll have to keep those in mind. You may be chuffed to know that yesterday I directed my students to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary as a good way to find the etymology of a word. Unfortunately I couldn't find an updated version of my favourite dead-tree edition (Heinemann Australian Dictionary) in the bookshop and none of the others were etymological in form.
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