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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.worldwidewords.org
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| | | | | Issue 916 of the World Wide Words newsletter, dated 03 Oct 2015 | |
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language-and-innovation.com
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| | | | | The reanimated (it had virtually disappeared in Britain until revived in the 1980s in its American incarnation) festival of Hallowe'en draws ever nearer, and its ghastly avatars begin to assemble in the darkness. Wearyingly familiar though their images have become, thanks to commercialisation, the origins of these bugbears' names are not always straightforward. The lurid... | |
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www.defensenews.com
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| | | In the final part of this three-part commentary series, the writers discuss the U.S. president's policies and what they see as the needs of the Navy. | ||
