Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Explore Galician (Galego), the official language of northwest Spain, often overlooked but rich in history and culture. This unique Romance language forms a fascinating linguistic bridge between Spanish and Portuguese,…
Discover the secret history of everyday words like 'nickname' and 'apron', which were born from simple mistakes. This post explores how mishearings and misreadings aren't just errors, but a powerful…
The word 'quarantine', a term that defined our recent global experience, is a direct linguistic fossil of the Black Death. We trace its origin to the Venetian Italian for 'forty…
Long before Italy was a unified nation, its people spoke a mosaic of regional dialects, with prestigious Latin reserved for the elite. Dante Alighieri, the master poet, made a revolutionary…
Language is constantly evolving, and now, computers can map its journey. Diachronic analysis is the fascinating field where AI sifts through centuries of text to uncover how words like 'awful'…