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Language Stories: The Great ‘Eskimo Snow Words’ Debate

Among the many charming anecdotes in the world of linguistics, the ‘Eskimo Snow Words’ story holds a position of considerable prominence. A tale as beguiling...

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Language Stories: The Great Emu War of Languages

Among the myriad anecdotes about languages, none encapsulates the eccentricity and wonder of linguistic evolution quite like the story of the word “emu”. A fascinating...

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Language Stories: “Up With This, I Will Not Put”

In the annals of linguistic anecdotes, few stories are as enduring, entertaining or illuminating as the exchange attributed to the irrepressible Sir Winston Churchill about...

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Language Stories: Darwin and the Birth of Ethnolinguistics

The narrative of Charles Darwin’s voyage aboard the HMS Beagle, while famous for its contributions to evolutionary biology, is seldom explored from the viewpoint of...

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The Legend of Malintzin: From Language Mediator to Historical Icon

In the annals of language history, few figures emerge as enigmatic, transformative, and divisive as La Malinche, also known as Malintzin, Doña Marina, or simply,...

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The Curious Case of the Green Children of Woolpit

In the annals of history, there are tales so strange that they seem more like fiction than fact. One such story is the curious case...

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