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2024-10-15 06:44:02

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The Modern Alliterative Revival.

The Citrine Origins of Tarot.

Wool and the Indo-Anatolian Hypothesis.

TROJANOW OR TROYANOV?

How Basque Has Survived.

Darnel.

Chuck.

Language Evolves.

Sumerian Beer.

Pathos II.

They Perished Like Avars.

Ah Big Yaws?

Yakka.

Aucun complexe.

Deppenapostroph: OK at Last!

OKH BLYA!

The Origins of Football Club Nicknames.

Stupa.

Vobscow.

Conversational Medieval Hebrew?

Milchig.

The History of the Limerick.

FOUR BASIC PHRASES.

The Oyster’s Enemies.

Tabby.

Pronouns Reactivate Conceptual Representations.

SOMEWHERE A DOG BARKED.

Panaeva’s Talnikov Family.

Is Legal Jargon a Magic Spell?

Untapped.

THE DANGERS OF LANGUAGE.

Nimrod.

Boko.

Most of Them Magyarized.

Coarse Fishing.

GRATICULE.

Clocky.

Faux raccord.

Shaginyan’s Kik.

Jaynes and Weird Minds.

Wordfreq Shuts Down.

The Tailor.

Nosh.

Think Like a Librarian.

Because (Prep).

Mathematical Styles.

Reinventing Spanglish.

Ghent Vocabulary Test.

Elongated Consonants Mark Words?

Nabu-kusurshu.

ENOT.

SOLOGUB AND SOLLOGUB.

Godard’s Books.

RUSSIAN FOLK TALES.

“INIMICABLE” AND THE MAVENS.

More Old Bones.

Asante.

Ishawooa.

COMPANIONWAY.

Conversational English in 1586.

Ketanji.

Son of Yamnaya.

Let George Do It.

Pama-Nyungan.

Primer.

PURITY VS. HISTORY.

Penang Lawyer.

Deep Vellum.

Metheglin.

The Doubles.

The Tocharian Trek.

Swam = Swawm?

Two Dialect Words.

Quand même.

Hubris, Hybris.

Benbecula.

AN ARABIAN MASTER.

Machine Analysis of Sumerian.

The Punan Batu of Borneo.

Swam [swɔm]?

Fort Worth Crease.

MUSKOGEAN AND LAMB’S-QUARTERS.

Apes, Gestures, and Language.

The New Euripides Papyrus.

Pure D.

Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi).

NOSY PARKER.

Them and [uz].

Who “Wrote” Aladdin?

LINGUISTIC X-FILES.

Bring Back Tully!

THE BOOKSHELF: UM.

Haggard Hawks Tweets.

Indo-European and the Yamnaya.

Sticking to Your last.

Sheepartee.

Levanting with a Lover.

Troche.

Dom Tanas de Barbatanas.

SHATNES.

A Couple of Books.

SINTI.

Uncommon Names.

Dtàt lìam pét.

Paximadia.

The Shapira Affair.

Qui sonum Latinae vocis ignorat.

Bergen/Bjørgvin.

Sebiro.

Tasseography.

THE X OF WHICH YOU SPEAK.

Cilantro, Coriander, Confetti.

Jodie Foster on Kids These Days.

TRANSSIBERIAN.

Farewell to Matyora.

Voynich Redivivus.

Disoriental, Footnoted.

Transmagnifican.

UNCLEFTISH BEHOLDING.

Euboean Greek to Etruscan to Latin.

Borges on Listening.

Coolth, Shorth.

TWO FOR THE FUNNY BONE.

Garbanzo.

“Star” “Wars.”

Dostoevsky’s Nasty Story.

McWhorter on P&V.

A Lesson for Us All.

THE FATE OF DUTCH IN AMERICA.

“Run” Upsets “Make.”

Large-scale Migration into Britain.

Bilingualism under Threat.

South-Eastern-Bantu Languages and Genetics.

The Perception of Indo-European in Greece.

BUS PLUNGE.

Two Translation Comparison Sites.

New Etruscan Text Found.

LINGUISTIC KORENIZATSIIA.

Familiae Rossicae.

CHANDLER ON PLATONOV II.

McWhorter on The Euphemism Treadmill.

ETYMOLOGICAL WORDNET.

Hand of Irulegi.

Blackfoot in the News.

Conjun.

The Living Mahabharata.

COPTIC ONLINE II.

THE MAN WHO LOVES ALPHABETS.

Mark Ridley and His Dictionaries.

Hops, Oast.

Gandoura, Gamashes.

PETERSBURG: TOMTOMS AND BUTTERFLIES.

The Cultural Influence of Persian.

Storrowing.

CANOLA.

Out There on Tables.

WHATEVER.

MOCHA.

Bags Filled with Crap.

TABELLION.

Tombolo, Tombola.

Hotdish.

Jonathon Green Reflects.

The Lost Words.

Without a Buffer.

Mind the Plinth.

Philippine Language Relations in a Map.

Paddle-out.

Scots Wikipedia Fail.

Green’s Dictionary of Slang Now Free.

MIND MACHINES.

Sino-Japanese from Dutch.

Jiffy.

Two Etymologies.

Yiddish in Latin Letters.

FECI QUOD POTUI.

Foreign Books and Japan’s Industrial Revolution.

BUNYIP.

Twenty Years for a Mistranscribed Consonant.

Clipmalabor.

Kouri-Vini.

Today’s Insult to Philology.

Untranslatable.org.

Veltman News and Queries.

AI Fails at Whitman.

How Did Proto-Indo-European Reach Asia?

VELTMAN’S LOST WANDERER.

FOUR-KANJI SAYINGS.

CITYSPEAK.

Manco.

Close Enough.

ASL Unlocking Japanese.

Two Italian Words.

Multilingualism and History.

CHOMSKY.

Bluestocking.

Hope You’re Kedge!

COEDES.

Morris’s Cent.

ANATOLY LIBERMAN ON SUPPLETION.

CONFABULATE.

Lafkioui on Rif Berber.

Alexander Germano.

DIXON: THE WORD FOR DOG.

Tout au plus la grecque et la latine.

Spelling Reform for Wayward Words.

Buck Buck.

Blooming Balderdash!

First Languages of North America from Two Siberian Lineages?

MORIMEN.

Punctuation Identification.

Caterva: The Summing Up.

Pullet Surprise.

Shubeik Lubeik.

Olm.

Epiphonema.

Zungenbrecher.

From Block to Bunt.

Polovetss and Ants.

TRANSLATION LINKS.

Nonverbal Communication in Early America.

Ax/Ox.

Tounakti Flicks a Switch.

War Words.

ArteletrA.

Peter Brown on Languages.

Yinzers.

Plagal.

INDIAN SUMMER.

110 New Languages at Google Translate.

Khazi.

My Brilliant Friend’s Neapolitan Dialect.

FALSE FRIENDS IN PEPYS.

EMBUGGERANCE AT GOOGLE SCHOLAR.

The Critic as Friend.

Yiddish on Duolingo.

Jabès.

VIETNAMESE NAMES.

Building a Database for Fongbe.

Times Xwords Wax Insular.

Nabokov’s Invitation.

The Earliest Known Abecedary.

New Mexican Spanish.

Russian Relative Clauses.

Birthday Loot 2024.

Genny Lec and Cozzie Livs.

TRANSLATING JÓZSEF.

Caterva.

Corinthian Spirit.

Trendy Baby Names.

The Emergence of Old Irish.

ETYMOLOGY IN PROUST.

That Two-Fisted-Man-Tobacco, Prince Albert.

Ein Döner bitte.

GOOTS REVISITED.

I’on Swamp.

LIBERTY HALL.

Espantoon.

Language: Why and How?

Daven.

NINETEENTH-CENTURY TEXTSPEAK.

Slang Today.

SINGULAR ‘THEY’ WINS GROUND.

Doulos.

Gnoseology/Gnosiology.

BENNE.

IS FRENCH LOSING GENDER?

Form- and Meaning-based Complexity in EFL.

How Latin Conquered Iberia.

BOCIO.

Capturing the Castle.

The Royal Rabbit.

Elborg Forster on Translation.

Foreign Films, English Titles.

Tarakan.

Shamba.

HOPEFULLY II.

Fa:m’ Ahniesgwow.

Gazofilacio.

A Punic Proverb.

Tallit.

THE SUMMER OF GENJI.

Tartessian.

What Is Fluency?

WHAT’S COOL THESE DAYS?

WL HRS A FU.

Why Classics Were Lost.

Farce.

Se(d)lo.

TERMAGANT.

Colorado Place Names.

In-Demand Languages.

DO WHAT?

IF SCHOOL KEEPS.

MORE LATIN BLOGS.

Ossetian Genealogy.

Hieroglyphs.

Fermor in Hungary.

A Fake Russian.

A Tsvetaeva Question.

COMPOUND A FELONY.

Runza.

CHUKAR.

PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR, RIP.

Ballot Names.

Fluid Speech.

Welsh Clay.

Can LLMs Transcribe Historic Documents?

Hebban olla vogala.

POETRY AND THE VERNACULAR.

Leeds Days and Dundee.

Oachkazlschwoaf.

Khemlin’s Investigator.

Wyatt Mason on Weinberger.

LUNA MEZZO MARE.

ELEMENTYMOLOGY.

France: “Please Don’t Do That.”

Butkov’s Attics II.

Insufferable.

Losing Your Native Tongue.

The Language of Wool.

Nudibranch.

The Language of Menus.

Early.

CAHG Culture and Lexicon.

UIGHUR NAMES PRONOUNCED.

The Etymology of Literary Martian.

The Bookshelf: Origin of Kibosh.

Cliffhanger, Pregnant.

Pretendian.

BROUHAHA.

NO LACROSSE FOR CANADA.

DINOSAURS, GRAVY, AND GRAMMAR.

The Gulf of New Mexico.

Jenes Gegenwendige.

Crum(b).

MAFFICKING.

Linguistic Non-Twins.

BECS.

Alternative Cuss Words.

Rrow itself.

The Pleasure of Historical Dictionaries.

Asian Languages Onscreen.

Jabotinsky’s Hebrew.

HOXNE AND HOGSFLESH.

THE ANDROID OF ALBERTUS MAGNUS.

THROUGH A TIN HORN.

Accepting Madame la ministre.

KurdîLit.

THOREAU.

Bletting the Medlar.

Saltum, siflum, et pettum.

Swing, Standby, Understudy.

Wyoming.

[Non-English].

THE LANGUAGES OF LITHUANIA.

Milton’s Holinshed.

YORUBA.

Slavs and Slaves.

Auntie.

Tu doces.

Interview with Max Lawton.

Neighborhood Names.

Philosophy in Sakha.

A Tremendous Book.

Metalepsis: Twikent.

Glossary Words.

Can North Africans Understand Maltese?

Ethno-linguistic Diversity on the Roof of the World.

Lindsey on Current English Pronunciation.

Song as Signal.

Fossil Words.

THE POLITICS OF LANGUAGE IN CENTRAL EUROPE.

Budapestiek and Istanbullu.

Len Pennie Explains Scots.

The Tearing of the Red Sea.

Exophonic Writers.

Rongorongo.

CONVERSATIONAL PROVERBS.

METATHESIS DATABASE.

Castor fiber.

English Is a New Top Coding Language.

A Silly Man, Though Lewd.

MA FI HADA.

Cellar Door.

Soviet Know-How.

Polytropos.

Kaverin’s Unknown Artist.

From Latin and Greek to Remedial English.

M.I.T. Grandpa.

LEMINI?

NAMES AROUND THE WORLD.

ADVENTURES IN SUBTITLING.

The Earliest Samekh.

COMMISSAR.

Suadero, Shishito.

Women’s Voices.

Almas.

Antedates, Women, and Aliens in the OED.

DEATH OF A DICTIONARY.

Caput Mortuum.

Translating Russian Literature in the Global Context.

Chepito?

Neenish.

Mamihlapinatapai.

Bunjevci.

Great Andamanese Body-Part Classes.

Noolbenger.

Two Animal Names.

Heaven’s Vault.

Ann Goldstein on Translating Elena Ferrante.

Australian Meanings and Origins.

Ascription.

Turkic Emphatic Reduplication.

THAI SPELLING REFORM.

Bumbershoot.

What’s the Oldest Language?

RobotsMali.

Probing Herculaneum Scrolls.

DE LA O.

KHASHOGGI.

Pigs in Blankets.

Teaching Nanai.

Piano Nobile.

The Novel as Battering Ram.

A Homage to Harmsworth.

Seediq.

NO, NO, THAT’S A BOOK.

Siksimiisii!

WIKIMOLOGY.

Nabokov’s Feat.

BISHKEK/PISHPEK.

UNICODE IN JAPAN.

MULTILINGUAL VEGETARIANISM.

Böögg!

THE PHILOLOGICAL BOMBER.

THE DECAMERON WEB.

YUDIFOVNA.

Toni Morrison’s Rejection Letters.

Whales and Other Aliens.

Autochthonous Spanish.

RE.

Of Which It Was Unheard.

Vulgar Expressions of Indifference.

The Pavlova Spectrum.

Origin of South Caucasian Languages.

Learning Clause-Chain Languages.

Constituent Order in Maltese.

The Cat’s Mother.

A LITTLE CLASSICAL HUMOR.

Saint Monday.

PUSHKIN, NABOKOV, AFGHANISTAN.

INTO THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.

Sorokin’s Blue Lard.

Switching from Russian to Chinese.

The Lying Whale.

Universal Words.

ASHES TO ASHES.

LANGUAGE MAP OF L.A.

A Memory Called Empire.

CANDY AND KANJI.

Hesiod’s Worst Hexameter.

Idli Day.

Romeyka II.

No Pushkin without Yat.

A DUSTMANS DUMPLING.

Bristle of Delusion.

BREAM.

The jubremony: headghgh.

ECLOGUES.

World, Flesh, Devil.

ATHBHREITH.

Electragist.

Ontology.

A Comparative Wordlist.

DOWN ALONG THE RIVER.

The New Spanish.

TYPO OF THE MONTH.

Kushan Script Deciphered.

Gugering.

LAZHECHNIKOV’S ICE PALACE.

An Ottoman Calendar.

It Geed.

New Aztec Codices.

LEXICITY.

K’ancha the Cholita.

Chronologicon Hibernicum.

Dilemma of the Sexy Cart.

Conlangs in Movies.

Susanna Nied on Inger Christensen.

Turscar, Prátaí, Páistí.

DUDE!

How the Corded Ware Culture Was Formed.

An Archaic Form in Deuteronomy.

The Russian Panama.

Blade Runner and Urban Languages.

English at Rakuten.

Kai su, punk!

Churchill on Reading.

LYRIKLINE.

MAIN STREET AND HIGH STREET.

Mither.

Monument to Cyrillic Alphabet in Antarctica.

CHIFFERI.

Genes and the Spread of Semitic Languages.

The King of Scrabble.

Enheduanna.

AI and Indigenous Languages.

How To Be Funny In Sanskrit.

SUIOGOTHIC.

Middle England.

Geoff Lindsey on Vocal Fry.

MAAR ON NABOKOV.

Rednaxela.

Demonstration of American Dialects, 1958.

The Languages of Kinder Surprise.

A Riter Wil Giv Himself Up to Hiz Feelings.

TOLKIEN TRANSLATION OF BEOWULF.

Paddingly Socratic.

LINGUISTIC COINCIDENCES.

WAATAR, WATER.

COLIEROS.

Bogan.

Beasts or Lilies?

Horse, Deer, Baka.

The Radetzky March.

Mucket.

What Exactly Is Universal Grammar?

Spill the Tea.

Literary Translators, Casualties of AI.

Cour des miracles.

Captation.

Rescuing Forgotten Geniuses.

ARABIC WORDS IN SPANISH.

Meuse.

HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU.

TRANSLATING MAGIC.

Currency Lads.

Lunfardo.

Sumercé.

Pinta’o.

Samantha Schnee and WWB.

LUNATIC FRINGE.

How Many Is a Couple?

Quillon.

Boogie-woogie Tramps.

Pawpaw.

The Savoyard and His Marmot.

AL-BIRUNI.

Talking Cant.

THE MYTH OF THE SMALL VOCABULARY.

Kalasmaic, a New IE Language.

EPISTEMOLOGY IN

YEATS ON RHYTHM.

AL-BIRUNI.

THE KASKASKIA MAN.

SHOECABBAGE.

THE LANGUAGES OF SEFARAD.

BLOGALIZATION.

WELCOME!

IDENTIFONT.

A POEM FOR MOIRA.

THE MYTH OF THE SMALL VOCABULARY.

LINGUISTIC X-FILES.

DO CHIMPS SPEAK?

IRISH CURSE ENGINE.

ENGLISH IN JAPANESE.

LOGOLEPT’S DELIGHT.

ROMANIZED RUSSIAN?

KARL KRAUS.

EDENIC LANGUAGE.

NEW LINGUABLOG.

ARABIC FOR INVADERS.

MIXED LANGUAGES.

SAWAYAKA!

HYAPADOS/ABSOLUTLIFABULOS.

ECLOGUES.

TACITUS, AGRICOLA 30.

POLYGLOT PLANETS.

TSK, TSK.

CITYSPEAK A L’ANGLAISE.

BARF DETERGENT.

CITYSPEAK.

TUR, KARGYSH MENEN TAMGALANGAN!

WUTHERING TRANSLATORS.

ALOHA, HTML EXPERTS!

MORE COINCIDENCE.

RUSSIANS IN LONDON.

NOT IN OUR GENES.

SINTI.

THE JASMINE.

THE HORROR, THE HORROR.

WHY A DUCK?

CHINESE POETRY.

HUH.

KIM ADDONIZIO.

ELECTIVE ETHNICITY.

KUPAIANAHA!

EPISTEMOLOGY IN

NAXI.

A DRAG PARADIDDLE AND A PATAFLAFLA.

SZAJKÓHUKKY.

SLOVENES IN AUSTRIA.

TEST YOUR VOCABULARY!

THE WRITTEN WORD.

NUCULAR.

ECRIVAINS.

THE LYRIC IMPULSE.

CUNNOS HABERE DUOS.

ON TRANSLATING NAMES.

GREAT AND DEAR LEADERS.

WHY SO DAMN MANY LANGUAGES?

HOW NOT TO SUPPORT A LANGUAGE.

NO PURITY HERE.

CHEONG.

WORD OF THE DAY.

LIBRARY SALE.

POETRY/JAZZ BLOG.

BAD ETYMOLOGY.

THE ANAGRAMMATIST.

WORD OF THE DAY.

ANTHONY HECHT.

MONTREAL ENGLISH.

MY KIND OF POLITICS.

TAKING LANGUAGES SERIOUSLY.

THE HISTORY OF PHAT.

YUM.

TWO GOODIES FROM