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The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . One of my favorite words is lox," says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New [...]
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There's the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, the Macquarie Dictionary, and even the leviathan called the Oxford English Dictionary. But there is only one SUPER DI...
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Is that a shocker to you? First, let me explain an infinitive. It's a verb form in English that uses the word "to" with the root form of the verb. The result, a kind of verbal, is called an infinitive. It can function as a noun, as in "To err is human; to forgive, divine."...
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You hardly even notice it happening to you, if they're good at it. They cozy up to you, almost like a brother, or at least a cousin, and they get you into what feels like a shared simpatico space - a kind of co-zen co-zone. But eventually, you realize you have been separated from your...
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