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www.arrantpedantry.com
In a recent episode of Slate's Lexicon Valley podcast, John McWhorter discussed the history of English personal pronouns. Why don't we use ye or thee and thou anymore? What's the ... |
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grieve-smith.com
Diversity is notoriously subjective and difficult to pin down. In particular, we tend be impressed if we know the names of a lot of categories for something. We might think there are more mammal species than insect species, but biologists tell us that there are hundreds of thousands of species of |
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www.grammarphobia.com
English speakers have been glottalizing the letter "t" since at least the mid-19th century. The pronunciation is common today in American and British English. |
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gizmodo.com
Some 73,000 years ago in what is now South Africa, an early human used a red ochre crayon to draw a cross-hatched pattern onto a smooth flake, according to new research published today. Its now considered the earliest evidence of drawing in the archaeological record. |
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