Alicia's English 102 Blog

I felt like almost half the class presented on working in the medical field. There seemed to be a reoccurring theme among each of the presen...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a nurse is a person who or thing which nurtures or cares for others. For as long as nurses have...

One of the articles I am using is centered around the Vietnamese population receiving health care in the United States. Cuturally, there are...

The Transformation of the Word “Retard” “Dude, you are such a retard!” one boy yelled to another. However, the boy who was yelled at had no ...

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first record of the usage of the word "retard" is from circa 1489. At that point i...

We recently did a reading from our About Language book on the word "macho". Before reading that, I had never viewed that word as a...

Everyone remembers the "i" before "e" except after "c" rule. Except, is it always true? No, what about words l...