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Often dismissed as verbal stumbles, filler words like "um," "like," or "pues" are far more than just speech errors. They…
** Have you ever wondered why *shirt* and *skirt* sound so similar? They are "etymological doublets"—words from the same root…
Tune your shortwave radio to the right frequency, and you might hear it: a disembodied voice reading strings of numbers…
Ever wonder how linguists estimate when languages like Spanish and French split from their common ancestor? The answer lies in…
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