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Why are some languages spoken faster than others? New research suggests that different tongues, regardless of speed, transmit information at roughly the same rate. economist.com/graphic-detail…

“I dropped my toothpaste,” said Tom, crestfallen. Nothing like a Tom Swifty for a hot July day! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty

You’d think we’d know where the word ‘bird’ came from… think again! phys.org/news/2024-07-c…

You’ve probably been discombobulated at one point or another, but have you ever been recombobulated? onmilwaukee.com/articles/recom…

from Wiktionary: etymology tree of "poggers"

Hey girl, 2024 Lyttle Lytton Contest winners just dropped: adamcadre.ac/lyttle/2024.ht…

Tony is a downright master of English accents! instagram.com/lclightbox/

Writing has been inexorably intertwined with language for thousands of years, and Unicode is the system used by modern computers to encode all the characters used by all the world’s writing systems. But nobody knows where one of them (⍼) came from! ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/ang…

The usage of the word ‘boilerplate’ has a fascinating history that descends through many layers of adopted meanings. buttondown.email/hillelwayne/ar…

Language isn’t harmful, and newspeak is double-plus ungood. itcommunity.stanford.edu/ehli

Language is intimately associated with writing, and orthography is the nuts and bolts of writing. Did you know English used to have two different lowercase S’s? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

Add some spice to your vocabulary with a few key terms from the Carolina brogue of the Outer Banks. We all know a whopperjawed dingbatter or two! youtube.com/watch?v=jgi9wY…

What's millet got to do with language? science.org/content/articl…

Great discussion on regional variations in grammar like ‘I’m done the files’ and ‘Might could do that’ as well as Black American Sign Language: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lex…

Ready for a fascinating deep dive into the typography of the three scripts in Japanese? Of course you are! aisforfonts.com/sinograms

It’s not easy to tell what language someone speaks just by looking at them! youtube.com/watch?v=AC6OJA…

Hop down the rabbit hole with me of how Trafalgar Square in London got its name… 🐇 reddit.com/r/etymology/co…

Want to try your hand at deciphering proto-Elamite? Now you can: historytoday.com/mark-ronan/puz…