Cardiologist combines Greek kardia, heart, and logos, science. The speciality is cardiology, the adjective cardiological. So a cardiac condition refers to some malfunctioning of the heart; a cardiogram is an…

Egoist and egotist are built on the same Latin root – the pronoun ego, meaning I. I is the greatest concern in the egoist’s mind, the most overused word in…

At the time of the Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain, the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family had developed into three large groups: X . Eastern, represented by ancient Gothic, and…

From the Anglo-Saxon period down to the 17th and 18th centuries, Latin, as well as being the language of church services, was the international language of culture and religion, and…

A true scientist lives up to the etymological meaning of his title ‘one who knows’. Anything scientific is based on facts – observable facts that can be recorded, tested, checked,…

If you think that grammar is an exact science, get ready for a shock. Grammar is a science, all right – but it is most inexact. There are no inflexible…

English grammar is confusing enough as it is – what makes it doubly confounding is that it is slowly but continually changing. This means that some of the strict rules…

The dermatologist, whose specially is dermatology is so named from Greek derma, skin. See the syllables derma in any English word and you will know there is some reference to…