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  • Bruce Price

    Bruce Deitrick Price is an author, artist, poet, and education reformer. He writes widely about the failed theories and methods commonly used in the public schools. Price founded Improve-Education.org in 2005.

    Latest articles by Bruce Price

    Exit: It goes out.

    18 ordinary English words that Julius Caesar spoke

    feature Most people, even those who studied Latin, don't realize that English contains many pure Latin words

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    • Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue when?

      10 super-helpful mnemonic tricks

      feature Your guide to never forgetting anything again

      By Bruce Price Last updated 8 January 15

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    • Kaboom!

      21 buzzy onomatopoeias

      feature A global tour of words that sound just like what they mean

      By Bruce Price Last updated 8 January 15

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    • Oof that J is hot!

      Is J the sexiest letter?

      feature It certainly seems to be featured in an inordinate number of sex-specific words

      By Bruce Price Last updated 8 January 15

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