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‘Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours’
Joe Clark now spells out this difference in his new E-book, an electronic book you can read in a Web browser or print.
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http://en-ca.org
English-language verbs ending in "-ish"
This page lists 43 verbs with the ending "-ish." Here they are: abolish, accomplish, admonish, astonish, banish, blandish, blemish, brandish, burnish, cherish, demolish, diminish, disting...
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http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/words/ishes.html
Linguistics 201: History of English
English belongs to the Germanic Branch of Indo-European English has changed more than most IE languages
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http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test3materials/HistEngoverhead.htm
Rules and Schemas in the Development and Use of the English past Tense
Consistent error patterns in English past-tense forms are reported for three age groups: preschoolers, 8-10-year-olds, and adults. It is argued that, although irregular forms are rote-lea...
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http://ihd.berkeley.edu/Slobin-Language%20Acquisition/(1982)%20Bybee%20&%20Slobin%20-%20Engl...
Linguistics: An invisible hand
Quantitative relationships between how frequently a word is used and how rapidly it changes over time raise intriguing questions about the way individual behaviours determine large-scale ...
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http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~wtsf/downloads/Fitch2007NatureNV.pdf
Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history
Greek speakers say "´‘oura", Germans "schwanz" and the French "queue" to describe what English speakers call a 'tail', but all of these languages use a related form of 'two' to describ...
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http://www3.isrl.uiuc.edu/~junwang4/langev/localcopy/pdf/pagel07wordFrequencyNATURE.pdf
Quantifying the evolutionary dynamics of language
Human language is based on grammatical rules1, 2, 3, 4. Cultural evolution allows these rules to change over time5. Rules compete with each other: as new rules rise to prominence, old one...
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http://www.ped.fas.harvard.edu/people/faculty/publications_nowak/Nature07.pdf
Machine prose
Given a piece of text in any language, the program called ADIOS - automatic distillation of structure - searches for patterns and structures which it then generalises to produce new and m...
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http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/may-aug05/adios
Speechless maths
Here you are, reading an article in a magazine about mathematics. This shows that know how to read and that you are interested in maths. But could you still do maths even if you could not...
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http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/jan-apr05/speechless
The mystery of Zipf
In our recent Plus article Tasty maths, we introduced Zipf's law. Zipf's law arose out of an analysis of language by linguist George Kingsley Zipf, who theorised that given a large body o...
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http://plus.maths.org/latestnews/may-aug08/Zipf
Evolutionary maths
What is it that makes the human mind so unique and us humans so different from the other species we share this planet with? One thing that is universally present throughout human cultures...
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http://plus.maths.org/issue44/features/varley
Prophetic Apocalyptic Language
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http://www.eschatologyreview.com/figurativelanguage.htm
Pinyin Pronunciation Guide
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http://www.fortune-cookie-500.com/Pinyin.html
Chinese Pronunciation Guide
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http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~pinyin/#Pinyin
http://ec.europa.eu/translation/writing/style_guides/english/style_guide_en.pdf
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http://ec.europa.eu/translation/writing/style_guides/english/style_guide_en.pdf
Spelling Test
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http://www.sentex.net/~mmcadams/spelling.html
Mondegreens Ripped My Flesh
Sunday monkey won't play piano song
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http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/carroll/mondegreens.shtml
Common Errors in English
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http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html#errors
ActionScript 3 for Java Programmers
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http://www.infoq.com/articles/actionscript-java
Leadership 101: How to Command Respect through Body Language - Yahoo! Buzz
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http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:c964e635cfd50b81621c80db4447948d:975fa3e1e2e9d48bf1cf7332ba2...
Jared Diamond, "The Golden Phonebook," The New York Review of Books (April 13, 2000) (review of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Genes, Peoples, and Languages, North Point/FSG)
I don't have access to the full article, but I am bookmarking this because I really want to get hold of it.
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/article-preview?article_id=146
ChangeThis :: George Lakoff Manifesto
Seen on melmcbride's Twitter stream.
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http://www.changethis.com/5.GeorgeLakoff
Since when is it elitist to be well-informed?
This is Susan Jacoby's column from May 2008, already widely discussed. I hadn't seen it until now.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/opinion/30jacoby.html?_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slo...
Today's word of the day: Hendiadys
A "hendiadys" (fr. Gk. "one through two") is a literary figure in which a pair of concepts in a subordinate relationship are presented as conjoined. Examples: "nice and warm" instead of "...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hendiadys&oldid=224218581