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Global English
Voice Is the Next Big Platform, Unless You Have an Accent
My mother was born in the Philippines, my father in India. Both of them speak English as a third language.
Language change and slang
stans
Arnold Zwicky considers the productive libfix –stan.
Improve your English
The dark and troubled past of “sleazy”
The modern sense of sleazy – “dirty,” “dilapidated,” “depraved” – doesn’t emerge in the record until the 1940s.
Words, books, dictionaries, and language
From ‘alibi’ to ‘mauve’: what famous writers’ most used words say about them
When Nabokov thought of a specific letter and sound he would see colours at the same time. Unsurprisingly, he uses colours at four times the rate found in standard English writing.
Remembering Nüshu, the 19th-Century Chinese Script Only Women Could Write
Out of the thousands of scripts that are gender-specific to men, here we have one that we know is gender-specific to women.
Podcast
Linguistics and Language Podcasts
If you like to take your language info in the form of podcasts, you will definitely find something to entertain you in Superlinguo’s useful list.
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