Where does punctuation come from?!
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The origin of every European country's name
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The Canterbury Tales, or, how technology changes the way we speak
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The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language
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The decimal point is 150 years older than previously thought, medieval manuscript reveals
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Why does the letter 'S' look like an 'F' in old manuscripts?
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There's a better English alphabet
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Thunderplump: Ten weird and wonderful words with Susie Dent
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The mysterious case of the "lost positive"
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Thirty-nine volumes of the Swedish Academy Dictionary stand as Sweden's answer to the Oxford English Dictionary. And it's just been sent to the printers after 140 years.
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How languages steal words from each other
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Historian finds evidence for use of y'all in London from 1600s
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A brief overview of Shibboleths, including their use during WW2
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The history of the boycott: How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888
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The long history of the figurative 'literally'—and eight great writers who used it
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Scientists have identified the oldest-known inscription referencing the Norse god Odin on part of a gold disc unearthed in western Denmark
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World's oldest runestone found in Norway – 2,000-year-old inscription is among the earliest examples of words recorded in writing
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The etymologies of military ranks
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The polyglots of Dardistan - At the crossroads of south and central Asia lies one of the world’s most multilingual places, with songs and poetry to match
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Interesting histories: Female — Male — Woman — Man
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How to revive a dead language: Although it was the language of sacred texts and ritual, modern Hebrew wasn’t spoken in conversation till the late nineteenth century
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Why we say "OK"
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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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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
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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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Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler: Words by year of appearance
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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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How the English language became such a mess
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Since the 1960s, dictionaries have cataloged how people actually use language, not how they should. That might be changing.
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Earliest version of our alphabet possibly discovered
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