Whoa! The New York Times has a 25-question survey that tries to discern where in the U.S. you live (or were raised) by how you pronounce words. They pegged me pretty good, as I live in the triangle plotted by the cities...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/23/Mapping-Your-Dialect/(Photo: Neil Griffiths)Innit a shame? The Harris Academy, a school in south London, UK, has forbidden its students from using certain words and phrases while at school. The purpose of the new rule is to teach children to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/28/School-Bans-Slang-Terms-Including-You-Woz-and-Innit/Artist and physicist James Chapman explains how do... ...s how dogs around the world sound in 14 different languages with Worldwide Woofs, a print available at Etsy.... ..., and other animals, all making noises in various languages . maybe they will be available for sale in the fut... ...favorite:Now I'm temp...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/25/Worldwide-Woofs/(The Dude t-shirt, now on sale at the NeatoShop)So, like, what, dude, is a “dude”? In The Atlantic, J.J. Gould traces the origin of the word. In modern English, the context matters a lot:Dude may be the most...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/25/The-History-of-the-Word-Dude-2/Redditor atrubetskoy created this map of nations a... ...of nations as their names are used in the Russian language . In Russian, nouns are either feminine, masculine... ...omalia seems to be in anarchy even in the Russian language . Сомали (Somalia) can be seen variously as...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/23/Gender-of-Countries-in-Russian/It has been said that Britain and America are two... ...ica are two countries forever divided by a common language . It should also be said that neither Britain nor...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/23/Words-That-Are-Different-in-British-English-and-American-English/[http://youtu.be/WW5FDhsHkUg] (YouTube link)Were you like me and saw the headline as "42 idiot origins"? No, these are idioms, or figures of speech. He talks about how they don't "literally" mean what they say, but we kn...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/10/02/42-Idiom-Origins/When an English speaker doesn't understand somethi... ...f they had trouble translating Greek alphabet and language , which was dwindling in use by the Middle Ages.... ...That brings up an interesting question: what language is deemed the most incomprehensible and therefore... ...e the list of the idioms....
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/26/5-Fun-Facts-Its-All-Greek-To-Me/[http://youtu.be/1w6uQIXC1aI] (YouTube link)Let th... ...Midwest and sometimes as the South, but we have a language
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/04/107-Regional-Slang-Words/In English, we often use the term "when pigs fly"... ...not the only way to say it in English, and other languages have their own colorful phrases for "not gonna ha...
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