-
Recent Posts
- Creating a detailed mural of the 1966 England football team on a window using spray paint and a brush.
- Earth’s gravity isn’t perfectly uniform. Here is what our gravitational field looks like when exaggerated 10,000 times.
- Tracy, Making Games (@theothertracy.bsky.social)
- Why wealth inequality is making you exponentially poorer
- Political points and historical accuracy #historyshorts #usa #trump #dday #historyfacts
- Orcas offering fish heads after damaging boats?
- thanks manchester x
- How HIV Started a Century Before Anyone Noticed
Archives
Categories
Tag Archives: English
ox | Sesquiotica
“Why is it called oxtail if it’s from a cow?” I’m glad you oxed. It’s not just a load of bull. Ox is a word that, for many of us, is both familiar and strange. I grew up in ranch country in Alberta … Continue reading
Who pronounces foreign words like PASTA right? 🇺🇸 or 🇬🇧?
A discussion of the different ways American and British English pronounce loanwords from other languages. The Harry Potter logo is Ukrainian Гаррі, not Russian Гарри. Ой. Thanks to @Teverell for Vigo, Kent, another Spanish placename in the UK. Various commenters … Continue reading
Five words that don’t mean what you think they do | The Conversation
Simon Horobin Professor of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford How words are used change over time and insisting that their original meaning be adhered to is pretty silly. Articles of this kind usually assert that a word’s … Continue reading
Where Did the F-Word Come From?
In the video today, we’re looking at the rather interesting origin of the f-word and how this Swiss army knife of the English language came to be.
msamba 