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Tag Archives: Foreign words with no equivalent in English
There’s English and there’s English.
Language is very important to all of us, which ever one it is that we speak. Over 20,000 people a year read my old post on 102 Words That Aren’t In English But Should Be 102 Words That Aren’t In English … Continue reading
Tracing words back through time
Back in the mid 1990’s when I was studying at SOAS, one of the classes that I most enjoyed were those given by Professor Alexander Piatagorsky. He is said to have been the greatest Russian philospher of all time and … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Heritage, history, Life
Tagged English, Etymology, Foreign words with no equivalent in English, Language, Proto-Indo-European, Words
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Apricity – The Warmth of Winter Sun
It’s freezing cold outside this morning. At 8.30am the garden is still minus 10C or 10F, the garden is covered in frost and ice and a pale blue stretches across the horizon with a very weak and watery like pale … Continue reading
102 great words that aren’t in English but should be!
I spent 4 years at a college in London University studying Africa and Asia. It was the most wonderful place due to the exposure of various languages and cultures and when I say various I mean hundreds. I remember one … Continue reading
Posted in Funny & Humour, Life, writing
Tagged Culture, Foreign words with no equivalent in English, Funny, Humor, Humour, Language, Life, Linguist, Literature, Words
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