In this piece, you will see two perspectives of the word "helicopter." The two views are the synchronic which means how we see it now and the diachronic which means its history. On the diachronic side you can see the history of way the word is built through matrices and word sums. On the synchronic side you can see how most people think the word is built including clips of words like copter and heli (this isn't wrong but a different way to see words). Side note: this is an illustration of a chapter of the book Backpocket Words by Gail Venable. 

by Mr. Anonymous 

You would never guess that "apocalyptic" and "eucalyptus," a plant, are related. Eucalyptus is a flower that starts as a bud that is well covered. When ready to bloom the cover opens. Apocalypse originally meant the world opening, revealing the truth behind the distortions of our vision. It came from some forms of Christianity. Later people thought that apocalypse is the end of the world. Side note: this is an illustration of a chapter of the book Backpocket Words by Gail Venable. 

Mr. Anonymous

In this piece, you can see before scribes started to change spelling and after scribes changed spelling. The scribes wrote in a very unique style; they wrote as small as they could to not have to use a ton of paper, and they used the smallest spaces between words. So eventually they needed to add <e>s to the end of lots of their words because the <e>s stood out and marked the end of the word. They also wrote with lots of minims. A minim was the basic vertical stroke.  <i> was just one nimum, <n>, <u>, and <v> were just two connected minims, and <w> and <m> were three connected minims. Look at picture for example. It was really hard to see the difference between letters like <u>, <v>, <w>, <m>, <n>,  and <i>. So if a <u> came after or before any of the other letters they would change it to an <o> because it stood out. They also changed <u u> to <w>.  <u> and <v> used to be the same letter, but scribes started to change them to different letters. They dotted their <i>s and changed <i> to <y> at the end of words. On the right side of the work, it says "the uuulf luued the uther uuulf "; this is before scribes made their changes. On the left it says "the wolf loved the other wolf, "after scribes changed spelling.

by Mr. Anonymous