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May 18, 2013

Posts by E.G.


Total # Posts: 438

English
"Athena" is an eponym and "athenian" a toponym, but is there also a "-nym" for "Athens"?

English
Thank you Ms. Sue and Anonymous.

English
I have done some extensive research on the various "-nyms", but I am still a bit unsure about the difference between EPONYM and TOPONYM. Am I correct, that an eponym is a person whom a place is named after, and a toponym a place named after a person or another place?...

science
Three atoms of oxygen.

educational games
Thank you, I am glad that you agree with me. I think they are fun and educational at the same time.

educational games
There is one very nice game I used to play as a child, that is fun and educational as well: 2 players minimum, no maximum. Each player gets a wide sheet of paper and categories are written on it. The main categories are: City, Country, River, Mountain, Flower, Author, Composer...

educational games
One is called "Word Bubbles" The player gets three word stems and has one minute each to build words with them. Points are given for each word. The challenge is to improve ones score with each game. The other is called: "Test Your Geography Knowledge"; ther...

educational games
I do not generally play online games, but I have come across two that I think are not only fun, but educational as well. Would I be allowed to mention their names here? (One has to do with words, the other with geography.)

science
You're welcome. Two brown-eyed parents, however, could have a blue-eyed child, provided each parent is heterozygous for brown eyes (Bb) and each one passes on the recessive (b) gene to the offspring.

science
None of them, I think. If I remember correctly, the blue-eye gene is recessive, so both parents are homozygous for blue eyes and neither of them could pass on a gene other than the blue-eyed one. But, I may be wrong.

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