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There are these disconcerting moments from time to time, instances where you walk into a new situation and find it oddly familiar despite never having experienced it before. This is a common phenomenon that we call déjà vu, French for “already seen.” At its opposite, though, lies a slightly rarer
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Since English borrows heavily from other languages, you can find many words that build up length with multiple roots and influences. Let's explore some of these super-long words.
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Who invented cursive handwriting? Why do we use it, and how did it start? After thousands of years, it’s incredible that cursive has survived despite its removal from most modern curriculums.
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While many English words simply came into being from Latin, Greek, or other foreign languages, some words have seemingly bizarre, and even downright macabre, beginnings.
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As language evolves and new vocabulary (including slang) is coined and recognized, older words that have long fallen out of use are retired and removed from dictionaries.
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Many of the words you use on a regular basis were totally made up at one point. Let’s take a look at people who permanently altered the English language.
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Grammar rules have a long and convoluted history. Let's take a look at how grammar rules were invented.
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Texting, Google searches and social media have all changed the way we now speak English. Here are 13 ways technology has changed the way we speak over the last 20 years.
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One of the conundrums of the English language, parkway and driveway are examples of words that don’t quite make sense, but we understand and use them all the same.
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Most people don’t have a dog-eared copy of a dictionary on their desk anymore, and word lovers and learners are turning to the internet. Let’s take a look back at how the English dictionary has evolved over the years.
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You likely learned the song in one of your first lessons in preschool, but the alphabet is much more complex than that. Let's look at the history of the alphabet.
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Here are the origin stories of a few of the most commonly known tongue twisters in the world.