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Dead Extinct Languages

How Languages Can Go From Living to Dead to Extinct

February 28, 2025

Word Mispronunciations

Why Certain Words Are Commonly Mispronounced

February 28, 2024

Turtles All the Way Down

The Mythology Behind ‘Turtles All the Way Down’

March 29, 2024

Cult Language

How Cult Leaders Use Provocatively Loaded Language to Control Their Followers

June 23, 2024

How Swans Land

How Swans Use Their Feet to Elegantly Land on Water

February 17, 2025

Elephant Without Trunk

Resilient Young Elephant Thrives Under the Care of a Dedicated Keeper After Losing His Trunk

April 7, 2026

Pumpkin Cringy Words

The Long History Behind Cringey Terms of Endearment

May 13, 2024

Ablaut Reduplication

Why Certain Vowels Come Before Others in Expressions and Names That Use Repetitive Sounds

November 29, 2024

David Attenborough Befriends Dinosaur

Sir David Attenborough Befriends a Giant Animated Dinosaur at the Natural History Museum in London

February 24, 2025

Linguistic Debate Universal Grammar

The Ongoing Heated Linguistic Debate Over Noam Chomsky’s ‘Universal Grammar’ Theory

May 4, 2025