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Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth?
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Why do English transliterations of Arabic names have so many Qs in them?
Sep 29, 2019
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Is English tonal for some words, like "permit"?
Sep 9, 2019
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Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages?
Sep 4, 2019
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Were ancient languages as sophisticated as modern languages?
Dec 16, 2019
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Is it unusual that English uses possessive for past tense?
Oct 9, 2019
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Days of the week in Yiddish -- why so similar to Germanic?
Feb 14, 2021
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Why isn't "I've" a proper response?
Aug 22, 2019
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Since when did Indo-European languages start associating noun genders with male/female sexes?
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How did שְׁלֹמֹה (shlomo) become Solomon?
Jul 1, 2019
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