Monday, November 22, 2010

Do you have a chrestomathy?

chrestomathy / kreh-STAH-muh-thee / noun
a selection of passages used to help learn a language
a volume of selected passages or stories of an author
Merriam-Webster: the Greeks had the usefulness of knowledge in mind when they created "chrestomathy" from their adjective "chrēstos," which means "useful," and the verb "manthanein," which means "to learn."

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