Important Announcement
17 March, 2020 at 1:39 PM
ELC is proud to provide virtual options for new and existing students to continue their English learning without disruption as we follow recommendations from health experts to practice social distancing to combat the spread of COVID-19. Utilizing Readmore... updated and innovative online teaching methods, ELC invites English language learners from around the world to join us for our online classes, which continue to be taught by our most experienced and veteran teachers. In addition to our online courses, our School Directors will be available in person, to provide drop-in hours and any additional support that may be needed for local students.
If you have any questions about ELC, current courses, or are a new student looking for options to enhance your English skills while typical daily activities are disrupted, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Special offers are currently available for new students!
The health and safety of our students, staff, and host families are our first priority and we look forward to moving our community online temporarily while prevention and mitigation of COVID-19 takes place.
Important Announcement
17 March, 2020 at 1:39 PM
ELC is proud to provide virtual options for new and existing students to continue their English learning without disruption as we follow recommendations from health experts to practice social distancing to combat the spread of COVID-19. Utilizing updated and innovative online teaching methods, ELC invites English language learners from around the world to join us for our online classes, which continue to be taught by our most experienced and veteran teachers. In addition to our online courses, our School Directors will be available in person, to provide drop-in hours and any additional support that may be needed for local students.
If you have any questions about ELC, current courses, or are a new student looking for options to enhance your English skills while typical daily activities are disrupted, please reach out to us at [email protected]. Special offers are currently available for new students!
The health and safety of our students, staff, and host families are our first priority and we look forward to moving our community online temporarily while prevention and mitigation of COVID-19 takes place.
Everyone knows of a palindrome…But what’s a Levidrome?
The story begins with a six-year-old boy from British Columbia named Levi. One day, Levi realized that there’s no word in the English dictionary for a word that spells a different word when backward. Palindromes — words that are spelled the same way forward and backward, like kayak — already exist and are a fun and quirky trait of language (see our blog post from April 2017 for more palindromes). But what about when a totally different word is created?
Introducing… the Levidrome!
Before the Oxford dictionary will add a new word into the official list of English words, it has to be a word that is commonly used. William Shatner, famous for his role as Captain Kirk on Star Trek, even tweeted about it to try and help little Levi become a dictionary word!
Shatner found the following words: am/ma; now/won; deliver/reviled; debut/tubed; recap/pacer; smart/trams; boy/yob; stab/bats; at/ta; he/eh; saw/was; sway/yaws; mined/denim; keep/peek; flow/wolf; stop/pots; nab/ban; desserts/stressed; reward/drawer.
ELC also thought of: loot/tool; pin/nip; dog/God; loop/pool.
Can you think of any? What about in your language? See what others have come up with by searching #levidrome
