Icky

Hye Yoon asked me about "icky."

"Ick" is what we (Americans) say when we see something gross or disgusting or physically unpleasant. "Icky" is the adjectival form.

So, we can say we feel icky, or we saw something icky. "I changed an icky diaper yesterday."

Another way to get questions to me

You can post your questions as comments to any blog entry and I'll address them either as a comment or as a new posting. This seems easier than having to email them to me.

More soon!

A start

I've been volunteering as a teacher at the International Friendship Center in Madison, WI, for a while now. At the end of each class, I usually ask if anyone has any question about specific words or expressions in English. As the possibility that I'll be leaving Madison (or be in Madison less), I wanted to find a way that I could still help people who wanted a native speaker's sense of English.

People at the IFC can email me questions, and I'll post answers here. I'm trying this out--maybe it will work, maybe it won't. But it seemed like it might be useful and a good way to still help out with the IFC.