Differences between food and gardening vocabulary and lexicon from then to now
For this presentation, I just found it very fascinating to learn about the different pronunciations between American English and British English. I never realized how many different vowels there were in American English, but apparently there are a lot that we use that I wasn't a where of. What I enjoyed the most about this presentation was learning about how Thomas Jefferson was neologist ( creator of words). I honestly had no idea that was even a real thing, but apparently Thomas Jefferson created a lot of words that we use a lot today, for instance "guess" and "bid". Lastly, I found it really weird the way that Thomas Jefferson would speak to his fellow high class friends, for instance he would say things like, "How does your lady, sir." Which I just find very crazy to say something like that because to me that makes no sense. But overall, I learned a lot from this presentation.
Heritage livestock breeds in Colonial Virginia
For this presentation, I felt that the presenter flew through it too fast for me to really enjoy the content she was presenting. So from what I did catch from the presentation, I thought it was interesting that Thomas Jefferson didn't want to raise sheep until he received a letter from George Washington telling him that he should start raising sheep. Overall, this presentation just spoke about different types of animals that need to be conserved because the changing agriculture in America is putting these animals at risk. Lastly, I would just like to say that this presentation was very informative for the most part and I learned a lot from it.
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