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- How languages hear each other
- We wuz robbed of a whole world of culture when they reformed language teaching
- "Norse’s raw energy simmers under the surface of everything we say:" 139 Norse Words that Invaded English
- “Good lawyering is applied poetry. Words wielded well are a lawyer's weaponry. ...
- English phrases from falconry: Hoodwinked, haggard, fed up, bated, booze, under my thumb, wrapped around my finger ...
- Sfyria -- Greece's whistled language has lasted 2500 years
- HYPNIC is the new (to me) word of the day. Maybe this is why we call it “falling” asleep.
- HOMODONT is the word of the day. Rhymes with font, not won’t.
- Busy and bury got their pronunciations from one dialect, their spellings from another.
- "We need to be able to use ideological words in a widely-recognized sense, even if . . .