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June 11, 2019 A Fleeting Glance
The word transient reveals some enduring patterns in English pronunciation and etymology.
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40 min
May 28, 2019 The Romance Languages
What an ancient, undecipherable manuscript says—and doesn't say—about Latin and its spawn.
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45 min
May 14, 2019 Why Do Some Americans Say Warshed?
The letter R has a habit of intruding on spoken English. How come?
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49 min
April 29, 2019 Flores Man vs. Sulawesi
A linguistic mystery in the Lesser Sunda Islands.
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47 min
April 16, 2019 The Lingua Francas
A conversation with Gaston Dorren, author of Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages.
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37 min
April 02, 2019 Can Climate Influence Language?
Tonal languages evolved mostly in hot and humid places. What would explain that?
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46 min
March 19, 2019 When Ain't Was Alright
What we can learn about English from am, the seemingly simplest verb.
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39 min
March 05, 2019 The Semitic Tongues
Where did Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic and their kin originate? And what is a triconsonantal root?
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45 min
February 19, 2019 Precious Little
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How an old word for child morphed into a versatile, and very modern, suffix.
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43 min
February 06, 2019 When Words Collide
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Some more of the many ways that neologisms form.
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44 min

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