Tutoring English, words used in surprising ways are always interesting. The tutor mentions career, the verb. career (verb): travel in a seemingly uncontrolled manner at high speed. Source: Barber, Katherine et al. Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English. Don Mills: …
Self-tutoring about Canadian geography: the tutor begins about a famous, yet remote, part of his home province. Sable Island, from the French sable, meaning sand, is a connected arc of sand dunes that form an island about 175 km off …
Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor gives an update of his experience in home computing. The main computer we use, a Windows 7 desktop from 2010, had been struggling a couple of weeks. I mentioned about starting it in …
Computer problem: it seemed serious, until I disconnected a device. Read more »
Self-tutoring about rhubarb: the tutor shares findings. As a kid I ate dishes prepared from rhubarb stalks – strawberry-rhubarb pie, for instance, as well as stewed rhubarb. Nowadays I seldom eat rhubarb, and never buy it. However, my wife brought …
Rhubarb: 1) Must you peel the stalk? 2)A rhubarb dish. Read more »
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions the word adjure. adjure (verb): to ask with urgency, suggesting it need be done. Source: Gilmour, Lorna (editor). Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus. Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.
Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor shares a workaround he used today. We have several old computers that can be temperamental. This one, from 2010, has been acting up. I tried to do a full scan of it for …
How to start Windows 7 in Safe Mode, and a reason I wanted to Read more »
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions the word edification. edification (noun): spiritual or moral improvement brought about by teaching or by witnessing a demonstration. Source: Barber, Katherine et al. Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English. Don Mills: …
Self-tutoring about home computer use: the tutor shares how he fixed a non-responsive search box in Windows 10. All of a sudden, when I would enter the name of a program I wanted in Windows 10 search, it was blank. …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions the word spurious. spurious (adj) not as represented or suggested; false. Source: Mish, Frederick C (editor). The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.
Tutoring English, new words are always interesting. The tutor mentions proselyte. proselyte (noun): someone who didn’t formerly hold their current point of view, but who has [recently] adopted it. Source: Mish, Frederick C (editor). The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.