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Explore the fascinating linguistic history of pangrams, from the ubiquitous "Quick Brown Fox" to the brain-twisting quest for the perfect…
While fans of *Outlander* fell in love with possible Gaelic phrases, the true history of the language involves a dramatic…
Between the 14th and 18th centuries, English speakers radically changed how they pronounced vowels, engaging in a massive linguistic game…
While the Coptic script appears remarkably similar to Greek, it hides a linguistic secret: seven unique letters borrowed from the…
Hungarian is a typographic rarity, distinguishing itself as one of the only languages to utilize the "double acute" accent (ő,…
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English is the only major language that capitalizes the first-person singular pronoun "I", a quirk that many assume stems from…
The Dolch List consists of 220 high-frequency "sight words" that comprise up to 75% of all juvenile reading material. This…
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