JAIME S.
Subscriber since: June 2009
Location:
Bellaterra,
Spain
About Me
JAIME SARD, MD, DDS, PhD. Born on 1953, in Spain, Majorca Island. Became a Medical Doctor in Barcelona, on 1978. After 3 more years : Specialliced in Odonto/Estomatology. Became Professor on 1990 at Odontology Faculty of Central University of Barcelona. Private Practice as dentist, married, 3 children, Nestor, Greta and Anna. Professor from 1990-1995. Left the University because wanted to devote more time to my family. I closed my private practice on 2008 due to hundreds of dentists coming from South-America. Now I work as a MD, but only one 24 hour night shift per week, being time and not money my priority now.
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Favorite Word:
serendipityUnexpectedly, finding something interesting, while looking for a different thing.
Favorite Quote:
"I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand"
- Confucius
Favorite Topics:
Copywriting:
Score One for the Apostrophe
October 19, 2011
- 9 Comments
The Case of the Lay Flat Collar
June 29, 2010
- 19 Comments
Dictionaries:
A Taxing Day for Dictionaries
April 15, 2013
A Worldly Tour of the Oxford English Dictionary
January 23, 2013
- 3 Comments
Linguists:
A Linguist Answers, "Why Do I Do What I Do?"
January 17, 2011
Telling the Life Stories of Words
December 7, 2010
Spelling:
Scripps National Spelling Bee Adds Vocabulary Questions
April 11, 2013
- 3 Comments
Rosanne Cash Knows Her "Ischium" at a Literary Spelling Bee
November 20, 2012
- 1 Comment
Storytelling:
Type Casting
January 24, 2012
- 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011
- 5 Comments
Visual Thesaurus:
Word Cloud: A Film Inspired by the Visual Thesaurus
August 24, 2012
- 5 Comments
Reconsidering the Thesaurus
April 2, 2012
Web tools:
Twitter Me This: New Technology in the Language Arts Classroom
November 15, 2011
- 3 Comments
Tracking Dialects on Twitter: What's Coo and What's Koo?
November 4, 2011
- 4 Comments
Word Origins:
Season Openers: Baseball Terms and Myths
April 23, 2013
April 23, 2013
March Madness: Are You Betting on "Chalk"?
March 22, 2013
WordMasters:
WordMasters: Grade 3 Blue Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
WordMasters: Grade 3 Gold Division Jan-Feb '11
January 31, 2011
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