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In the 1950s, a fierce debate erupted in Britain over a simple yet profound idea: that your choice of words…
For nearly 400 years, the forty "immortals" of the Académie Française have stood as the official guardians of the French…
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This post explores how Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli's 1877 description of "canali" (channels) on Mars was translated into English as…
The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary relied on thousands of volunteers, but none were as brilliant or enigmatic as…
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