At My Pace Speech Therapy

24/12/2025

Merry Christmas 🎄
… and also sharing a wonderful resource for surviving the day it’s not so easy for you and/or a loved one 🧡
See you next year!

We're nearly there.

If things are rough, I see you and I hear you.

You are doing an amazing job.

We've got this.

Em 🌈

24/12/2025

Word nerd advent.. day 24
Hark, it's the night before Christmas!
Happy holidays!

23/12/2025

Word nerd advent.. day 23
Before 'holiday' it was known as 'halidai', originally with the religious meaning but later coming to mean "a day of exemption from labour and recreation". Hooray!

22/12/2025

Word nerd advent.. day 22
'Tradition' comes from the morphemes trans- ("over") and dare ("to give").

21/12/2025

Word nerd advent.. day 21
The original meaning of 'cheer' (12th century) was 'the face or countenance'! The positive association came about in around the 14th century.

20/12/2025

The word 'etymology' is trending on etymonline 😂

20/12/2025

Word nerd advent.. day 20
Festive: "pertaining to a feast" or my own take "feast-like in nature".

19/12/2025

Word advent.. day 19
We've been talking about Santa quite a lot in my househo-ho-hold! I don't know about 'ho' succeeding in demanding any silence though...

18/12/2025

Word nerd advent.. day 18
Isn't the evolution of this word fascinating? Wyscan --> wishen --> wish!

17/12/2025

Word nerd advent.. day 17
I always heard the lyrics as 'Good tidings we bring to you and your king' (We Wish You a Merry Christmas) 😂 It can't have been just me!