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| | | | | A correspondent named Jitendra Pant recently asked me to elaborate on the etymology of whole: Dear Jonathon, I am wondering why whole has a spelling beginning with 'w' and not just R... | |
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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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| | | | | 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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