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spanishlinguist.us | ||
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www.grammarphobia.com
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| | | | | The verb "indict" wasn't spelled or pronounced with a "c" when it first appeared in Middle English in the early 14th century. | |
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quuxplusone.github.io
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| | | | | Previously: "A poem all in dactylic noun substantives, part 1" (2025-08-28). Cervantes wrote satirically of a poet who had written- "that part of the history of King Arthur of England which Archbishop Turpin left unwritten, together with the history of the quest of the Holy Grail; and all in heroic verse, part in rhymes and part in blank verse; but entirely dactylically-I mean in dactylic noun substantives, without admitting any verb whatsoever." Over on Literature StackExchange, Clara Díaz Sánchez explains that in the late 16th and early 17th century, there was in fact a fad for poetry in which many lines ended in dactyls. | |
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jasonkerwin.com
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| | | | | A few weeks after I described my endeavors to figure out why people were always saying "which" ("ati") around me, I managed to find the stem of the verb "kuti" in my hardcopy of Paas's English-Chichewa/Chinyanja dictionary. This is evidently not just an aspect of Nyanja slang - it's a legitimate word with its own ... Continue reading "The tyranny of "kwambiri"" | |
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www.nationalgeographic.com
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| | | About 4,200 years ago, horseback riding allowed people to travel farther and faster than ever before, spurring migration throughout Europe and Asia. | ||
