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wyrdbritain.blogspot.com
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| | | | | Welcome to Wyrd Britain, a place of stories of a stranger Britain. | |
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starkeycomics.com
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| | | | | False cognates are pairs of words that seem related, but aren't. Here are some of these amazing linguistic coincidences. What are False Congates? If you read my last post, Dizzying Doublets, you'll see that sometimes words that seem totally different, like "nation" and "king", or "gonads" and "genius", can be distantly related. Words like this, [...] | |
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www.mentalfloss.com
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| | | | | The connections between words aren't always as straightforward as the link between 'run' and 'runner'; often, figuring them out requires the subtle unraveling of linguistic evolution, the kind of detective work that makes etymology so fascinating. | |
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