Welcome, Ms de Caffeine - may I say what a delightfully bright and unusual colour yellow you have chosen for your blog background? :)

By the way, seeing your interest in Latin and spelling, are you aware of the great resource at Bartleby, where you can often find the family resemblances between Romance languages that derive from Latin - for example, common words we take for granted like cigarette?

http://www.bartleby.com/61/46/C0354600.html