Right Here In The Vatican City
High School, Language & Words, Non-Dialogue, Pennsylvania, Schoolmates, USA | Learning | March 14, 2020
I went to a Catholic high school, and at the time, all freshmen had to take Latin I. On the first day of class, the teacher went into how a lot of words in English have Latin roots.
“When the word has ‘bi-‘, it means ‘two.’ With ‘tri-‘, you have ‘three.’” He followed with, “And when you have ‘mono-‘ you have…”
A classmate piped up, “Trouble!”
That’s a Latin lesson I’ve never forgotten.
