I am so glad you are enjoying it!

I will try to make the contact details more prominent

Oh. That's strange. I use the website every day and it seems to be working fine. I will look into it. For a website you can usually just email admin @ [website], which is true for my website too. If you have any further problems, don't hesitate to let me know.

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English has borrowed a lot of words from Persian

Slang changes all the time. "humbug" used to be quite offensive, on par with calling something "bullshit" or "for f*ck sake"

Reason 10393 why English spelling is weird

The origin of the word "true" in a few languages. Swedish "sann" is related to "sooth" in English "soothsayer"

The story behind names of places and countries is often very interesting

Modern English is a tranwreck between the Saxon language (and the language of the Jutes, and the Angles), the Normans and Old Norse (the language of the Vikings)

English has borrowed a lot of words from Old Norse, including the word for sky

French gets a lot of vocabulary from the Franks (even their name) who were a Germanic tribe and its the Romance language with the most Germanic derived vocabulary

Hi @irishlanguage.bsky.social, I run a website all about languages and linguistics and I really enjoyed your article. Are you interested in letting us publish your article on our website? You can also reach us at steve@sillylinguistics.com

Thanks!

Spanish and Catalan are both Romance languages and therefore share a lot of vocabulary but they are not always the same

What language is this?

Hmm. I can't think of any

Oh, interesting. It's funny how languages borrow words but also use the differently

Its like the breathy "wh" (w with a breath) you hear in some older speakers in words like what and where

No worries :) I try to have a broad range of content for linguists, linguistically minded but also people who just like words

This is just for the comic and the website. For more general language memes I have bsky.app/profile/stev...

German never went through this so the words are more German like Anwalt for lawyer, Beklagte for defendant and Ankläger for prosecutor. I wonder what these words would be in English if 1066 had never happened