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It seems that prosody (of the language heard in the womb) can affect how a baby cries: https://parenting.nytimes.com/baby/wermke-prespeech-development-wurzburg

“Of the 115 Indigenous language spoken in the United States, only two are healthy. Cherokee writer Rebecca Nagle writes for High Country News about the language extinction crisis the US currently faces—and the federal government’s insufficient efforts to preserve the … Continue reading →

This collection of important Old English artifacts was discovered in 2009. Scholars have spent the last decade analyzing it:

It doesn’t have exactly the meaning in which it is currently being used: https://edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dynamic_article_popover.aspx?artguid=a1ab119b-8403-4abb-9433-52b366aa4fab&appid=1165

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-inuit-combine-nine-different-scripts-for-writing-inuktitut-into-one-2/

In 2012, Sweden introduced the gender-neutral pronoun hen. See what happened: https://www.wired.com/story/actually-gender-neutral-pronouns-can-change-a-culture/?mbid=email_onsiteshare

Read about the variety of English unique to Korea: https://theconversation.com/korean-language-speakers-should-take-pride-in-konglish-its-another-wonderful-example-of-linguistic-diversity-118790

Why is it that we can say “a beautiful large old square blue Persian rug”, but not “an old Persian square blue large beautiful rug”? With just a few exceptions, adjectives must appear in a set order, which we all … Continue reading →

We may think that words such as (un)friend or hipster are recent additions to the vocabulary, but a brief dip into the Oxford English Dictionary reveals their longer histories: http://mentalfloss.com/article/51857/16-words-are-much-older-they-seem

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/24/books/holocaust-nazi-archive.html?searchResultPosition=1