The history of the boycott: How one Englishman’s name has ended up in every dictionary since 1888
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Ox
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The long history of the figurative 'literally'—and eight great writers who used it
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Anglish: English without the 'foreign' bits
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The year woke broke: A brief history of a contested word
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The etymologies of military ranks
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Interesting histories: Female — Male — Woman — Man
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New gender-neutral pronoun is likely to enter the official Norwegian language within a year, the Language Council of Norway has confirmed
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From respair to cacklefart – the joy of reclaiming long-lost positive words
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Why do multiple meanings of words so often map across languages
The English word 'crane' means a large bird or a giant lever-thing for moving heavy stuff. The Hungarian word 'daru' means both of the same things. English and Hungarian are about as unrelated as...
The English word 'crane' means a large bird or a giant lever-thing for moving heavy stuff. The Hungarian word 'daru' means both of the same things.
English and Hungarian are about as unrelated as languages get ... and yet, I keep bumping into parallels like that.
Thoughts, anyone?
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Why we say "OK"
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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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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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Dictionaries recently added more than 1,500 words. Here are some new entries.
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The rise of the swear nerds
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What these two French words can teach us about social change
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How the English language became such a mess
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Red, yellow, pink and green: How the world’s languages name the rainbow.
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A debate over the word for ‘grandmother’ in China exposes a linguistic and political rift
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Unrelated languages often use same sounds for common objects and ideas, research finds
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Color or fruit? On the unlikely etymology of "orange"
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