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Merriam-Webster Asks For Best Non-English Words And The Results Are Awesome
HuffPost via Yahoo News· 1 year agoMerriam-Webster started a Twitter thread on Tuesday, and there are no words for just how awesome it...
Unspoken for 2 centuries: Bringing the indigenous Timucuan language back to life
The Florida Times-Union via Yahoo News· 6 months agoA linguist and a historian have been working to bring back to life the Timucua language, which they...
Dover's Bryce Beckley headed to national spelling bee
The Times-Reporter via Yahoo News· 1 year agoDOVER – The English language has about a million words. Bryce Beckley, 14, doesn't need to know all...
Talking turkey! How the Thanksgiving bird got its name (and then lent it to film flops)
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNot everyone is a fan of Turkey Day. E4C via Getty Images“Meleagris Gallopavo Day” is a bit of a...
Jehovah's Witnesses translate Bible into 1,065 languages
The News-Messenger via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen Northwest, Ohio, resident Malagros Maldonado would read in English, she had to translate the...
Pullman sixth-grader ties for 12th in National Spelling Bee
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 12 months agoJun. 2—OXON HILL, Md. — By the time the confetti fell Thursday night and Dev Shah was crowned winner of the 95th Scripps National Spelling Bee, the eighth-grader from Florida had vanquished ...
Computer modeling is tracing the hidden evolution of sign languages
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIn tracing signed vocabularies’ evolutions, researchers applied phylogenetic analysis typically...
Twenty Years Later, Tego Calderón’s ‘El Abayarde’ Still Embodies the Powerful, Raw Spirit of...
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWith jazzy orchestra sounds, folkloric Afro-Boricua percussion, and political lyrics united over a...
‘Gala’ Meant a Glitzy Party Long Before the Met Had One
The Wall Street Journal· 2 weeks agoIt is the Met Gala, the annual benefit for the Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum...
Eagles Q&A: Tanner McKee's surprising ability? Speaking Portuguese
NBC Sports Philadelphia via Yahoo Sports· 8 months agoEagles Q&A: Tanner McKee's surprising ability? Speaking Portuguese originally appeared on NBC Sports...