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Word of the Moment
gopping
Word of the Moment
obfuscate
Word of the Moment
curtilage
Kindness
On reading this comment on a blog post on Language Log collating posts about languages not having words for this that and the other, I realised there were two meanings one could take from it. Here is the comment:
There isn’t any word in English equivalent to the Hebrew “mitzvah,” “Mitzvah” is sometimes translated as [...]
ID Cards in the UK
The government is introducing the UK to ID cards by giving them only to non-EU foreign nationals at first.
Autumn things
It’s getting to be quite autumnal; but what’s the adjective for spring? It’s vernal, of course, says the OED.
Forensic linguistics?
A while ago now, I attended a workshop on forensic linguistics, which got me interested in the subject. That interest has waned slightly because I need to focus on my PhD at the moment, and all the other things I need to do.
At the workshop, the main speaker told us about how in one [...]