Samfundssind – A word buried in the history books helped Danes mobilise during the pandemic, flattening the curve and lifting community spirit
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War of words as Nigerian English recognised by Oxford English Dictionary
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How should I refer to you? | Review of “What's Your Pronoun?”, by Dennis Baron
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I asked 64,182 people about “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's what I found out
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How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
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Ə: The most common vowel sound in English
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Abso-bloody-lutely: Expletive infixation
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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
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How Bernie Sanders answers a question
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Appalachian English
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Swearing in the Woods
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Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction
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Sweden's Rök runestone reveals inscriptions were as much about climate change fears as they were the history of ancient battles
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Why I'm possessive about apostrophes
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Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler: Words by year of appearance
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A dialect dissection of Britney Spears
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Oslo's city council wants the Norwegian capital to have an official name in Sámi
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Interview with one of the developers of Interslavic: the constructed language used in "The Painted Bird" which aims to be mutually intelligible with all Slavic languages.
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The language sounds that could exist, but don't
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The birth of the semicolon
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Why are there so many different types of “R”?
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Anyone here into conlanging?
I've been creating new languages for a few years now. I like to do it in my spare time, which becomes smaller and smaller each year, mostly from proto-languages that already exist. I'm currently...
I've been creating new languages for a few years now. I like to do it in my spare time, which becomes smaller and smaller each year, mostly from proto-languages that already exist. I'm currently working on a Slavic language in Belarus and Ukraine for fun. Anyone else into this stuff or wanna know more about conlanging in general?
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"Cymru am byth!" – How speaking Welsh became cool
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Why do people say "Jesus H. Christ," and where did the "H" come from?
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Why certain words are left out of our English Bibles
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Language wars: The nineteen greatest linguistic spats of all time
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Esperanto superfans won’t rest until they’ve achieved world domination
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Dictionaries recently added more than 1,500 words. Here are some new entries.
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Guam starts new effort to save dying CHamoru language
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How British Sign Language developed its own dialects
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When it comes to learning a foreign language, we tend to think that children are the most adept. But that may not be the case – and there are added benefits to starting as an adult.
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The rise of the swear nerds
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Lets get rid of the apostrophe
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Feliĉan zamenhofan tagon - Why Esperanto is an interesting language
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How millennials are breathing fresh life into the ancient Irish language
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What these two French words can teach us about social change
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Cultural activist from Guyana's Wapishana tribe tries to revive a near-extinct language
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Why are we still teaching reading the wrong way?
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The island that never stops apologising
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What is the best age to learn a language?
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Time Traveller by Merriam-Webster—Find out when a word was first used in print
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Code hidden in Stone Age art may be the root of human writing
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A very brief history of the Manx language
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‘Cwtch’: What the most famous Welsh-English word reveals about global dialects
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The mysterious origins of punctuation
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How the English language became such a mess
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The mystery of people who speak dozens of languages
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Punctuation that failed to make its mark
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China's rebel generation and the rise of 'hot words'
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A debate over the word for ‘grandmother’ in China exposes a linguistic and political rift
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