Posts tagged "language"
today i found out: why guys named richard are also called dick
out of all the nicknames, this one always confused me.
the link also contains the etymologies of slut, broad, jaywalking, lukewarm and the abbreviation Mrs.
- What is special about the word DIOXIDE? You don’t have to be a chemist to know that it reads the same upside down.
- What has six Is? Maybe Martians do, but here we are primarily interested in the words indivisibility and indistinguishability.
- The word verisimilitude has alternating consonants and vowels.
from the wordsmith.org a.word.a.day email
But it’s striking that 9/11 and its after-effects have left almost no traces in the language of everyday life.
