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| | Christmas shopping all done and wrapped, and late December birthday presents bought and wrapped. Definitely a productive vacation day!
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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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| | I have expanded this blog post in the light of comments received on Twitter, and to clarify a couple of issues that were not expressed particularly clearly when it began its life as a short rant. I fear I neglect this blog too much. There is, and has been, so much going on in my...
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| In last week's post I provided phonetic transcriptions of some example words using the International Phonetic Alphabet, or IPA for short. I thought it would be helpful to follow that up with some information about what the IPA is, and how to read it. And as a bonus, after learning about IPA transcription you will be able to better read pronunciation guides on Wikipedia. ...