Word Power Made Easy
by Norman Lewis · first published 1949
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Huh, that's cool. I wonder if there's any way I can expand my etymology-fu apart from just picking stuff up randomly or learning Latin/Ancient Greek. (I did read Word Power Made Easy as a kid. It kicked off my interest in these things.)
on “Gosubc – An implementation of the SubC language in Go” ↗…one for literacy is no exception. A nascent contrary impulse is emerging: readers deliberately turning to long-form works as a form of intellectual resistance. I’ve been working through Norman Lewis’s Word Power Made Easy and Tom Heehler’s The Well-Spoken Thesaurus, not just to expand vocabulary but to restore the sinew of productive speech. That project led me to conscript AI as a private tutor. With custom instructions,…
on “Learn Your Way: Reimagining Textbooks with Generative AI” ↗