Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Old English possessed a grammatical rarity called the "dual number", using specific pronouns—*wit* (we two) and *git* (you two)—to refer exclusively to pairs. This article explores how these lost words…
Most languages count one and many, but what about a number for precisely two? Discover the "grammatical dual", a lost feature of Old English that survives in languages like Slovene…
You know singular and plural, but what about a third option? Many languages, from Ancient Greek to modern Slovene, once had a dedicated grammatical form for exactly two of something—the…