Oracle Tutoring, Campbell River, BC
(250) 203-6544 (text) or (250) 830-0295 (talk)
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions factitious. Factitious means invented, but meant to be real or believed even so. A person may be trying to get a business up and running; if they say it exists before …
Tutoring English, evolution of it is interesting. The tutor looks into the abbreviation of something. I saw an abbreviation for “something” today, for the first time. To confirm it, I looked it up on the Internet. There I found numerous …
Self-tutoring about words and their actual meanings: the tutor reflects about majority and minority. Perhaps one can say “the majority” in a more confident way than “the minority,” since there can be only one majority group (for a given opinion, …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions pert. I recall Pert shampoo appearing when I was in elementary school. I always wondered if pert is a standalone word. It turns out that pert can mean “bold”, “lithe”, or …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions suss. Me and the boys thought we had it sussed -Rod Stewart, “I Was Only Joking” I heard that lyric as a kid, and assumed sussed must mean “figured out,” but …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions copacetic. I first heard copacetic in the late 80s, on the west coast. I came to realize it meant “all right” or “as you’d hope.” I wondered whether it was slang …
Tutoring English, everyday usage is interesting. The tutor mentions till. The 80s band ‘Til Tuesday spelled their name that way, but could it properly have been Till Tuesday, as well? Yes: apparently, till is a proper word meaning until. Source: …
Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions brinkmanship. brinkmanship: willingness to risk a worse outcome than losing the game would be, in order to win the game. Brinkmanship is a word I heard more often in the 80s …
Self-tutoring about sayings in English: the tutor mentions a new one. I still remember the 70s, and the fact that the saying “That’s a lot to unpack” was never used then. In fact, I can’t recall it being used until …
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Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions pareidolia. pareidolia: the tendency to see a feature in a scene that doesn’t contain it, because the scene contains a visual pattern that suggests it. Pareidolia causes people to see animals …