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When you’re an English speaker learning French, one of the best surprises is how many words are cognates—words that look and ...

“The Golden Bowl” is about two couples. One is made up of an Italian prince who marries an American woman named Maggie, the daughter of an extremely wealthy man. In the other, a school friend of ...

The Michigan accent, part of the Inland North accent, is part of American English. Here are how some words sound in the ...

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And there are words that should be adopted by English. Like “tsundoku” in Japanese ... the author’s motive who is “seriously funny” at this point. It was also surprising to learn ...

4. Sometimes two words together sound like two different sequences of words. For example, four candles/fork handles, ice cream/I scream. This is often because of something that happens in ...

“Wriggly, Squiffy, Lummox, and Boobs: What Makes Some Words Funny?” analyzed an existing ... Westbury wanted to see how a word’s phonology (sound), spelling, and meaning influenced whether ...

Pronunciation of these sounds can sometimes "deviate" from other varieties of English like American English, yet these deviations offer insights into the type of English used in the Philippines. For ...

Its meaning has shifted away from the original English meaning as well ... featuring people miming famous acts and with a separate section for people making odd sounds with their body parts. Ghost ...

This is nothing to do with their accent or English skills though. If you have ever talked about the high number of speed bumps in some Norwegian streets, you'll know what we mean. Some Norwegian words ...

Photo by ANDREA PATTARO / AFP From ‘arsenal’ to ‘pants’, it's surprising how many commonly-used English words originally came from ... with dār al-ṣināʿa meaning ‘factory’. This word sounds very ...