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Sesquipedalianism
from the Latin, literally “using foot-and-a-half-long words”; found in: The New York Times … more »
Odds and Ends
Native Languages of California: Remission and Revival
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Chris wrote 2 weeks ago: This is an electronic copy of a paper I’ve just completed for a class in Multilingualism at th … more »
WALS goes online.
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Chris wrote 2 weeks ago: Many of you language geeks may have heard of the (relatively new) World Atlas of Language Structures … more »
Historical Number Systems.
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Chris wrote 3 weeks ago: Math majors out there will show some interest in this one: English vocabulary gives us some hints on … more »
History's mysteries.
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Chris wrote 3 weeks ago: In a recent typology class, two quite famous mysteries of the English language were brought up. Of … more »
sesquipedalianism
Pit wrote 1 month ago: from the Latin, literally “using foot-and-a-half-long words”; found in: The New York Tim … more »
snipergate
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Pit wrote 1 month ago: Hillary Clinton’s “blunder” in retelling the story of her landing in Tuzla/Bosnia … more »
coprolites
Pit wrote 1 month ago: = fossilized faeces, cf. BBC … more »
More on Vajda's Siberian-Na-Dene Language Link
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Alex Greengaard wrote 1 month ago: National Geographic News has just published an article about the recent symposium in Alaska regardin … more »
exurbs
Pit wrote 1 month ago: outskirts even further from the city centre than suburbs, cf. The Economist … more »
advertorial(s)
Pit wrote 2 months ago: Now what might that be? Found it in the Daily Mail. To me, it just looks like an ordinary advertisem … more »
Obamacans
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Pit wrote 2 months ago: a term coined by Democratic candidate Barack Obama denoting Republicans in favour of him, cf. The Lo … more »
latte liberals
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Pit wrote 3 months ago: a (somewhat derogatroy and dismissive) term used by the Clinton campaign to describe the young and b … more »
Of tobacco spirits and tobacco changelings: The etymology of seripigari, Part III
Lev Michael wrote 3 months ago: In previous posts (here and here) I have worried the Matsigenka word seripigari ’shaman … more »
Cognate Identification: Orthographic Methods
Jason Adams wrote 3 months ago: In previous posts on cognate identification, I discussed the difference between strict and loose cog … more »
Tsunami Tuesday
Pit wrote 3 months ago: What a name for Tuesday, February 5, when primaries/caucuses will be held in 20 states! I wonder if … more »
gephyrophobia
Pit wrote 4 months ago: gephyrophobia: a fear of bridges, cf. The New York Times … more »
bloviathon
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Pit wrote 5 months ago: Now what does that mean?? Seen in The New York Times … more »
What GVPSNA Got Right (And What Others Get Wrong)
Lev Michael wrote 5 months ago: Since I have been critical of the use of historical linguistics in Genetic Variation and Population … more »
uptowning
Pit wrote 5 months ago: term seen in the NYT, cf. “The uptowning of the Lower East Side“ … more »
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