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Photo credit: Raph_PH/Wikimedia Commons – Michael McIntyre is a popular comedian from the U.K.

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British stand-up comic shows what English would sound like if we pronounced silent letters

Parker Molloy

October 1, 2025
Photo credit: Tiktok.com/@etymologynerd – We use so many walking metaphors to describe thinking.

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Linguist clearly demonstrates how ‘thinking is walking’ in English and it’s just so cool

Parker Molloy

September 23, 2025
Photo credit: Images via Canva/Carlos Jamaica, michalootwijk – Acronyms like radar and scuba.

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31 acronyms you use all the time—what they actually stand for

Mandy Coles

September 22, 2025
Photo credit: Olly Richards/YouTube – Have you ever heard these 7 unique American accents?

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British language expert shares 7 American accents that are particularly tricky

Parker Molloy

September 17, 2025
Photo credit: WIRED/YouTube – Linguists Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer explain the history of slang terms on WIRED.

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Linguists explain why some slang words come and go quickly while others have staying power

Parker Molloy

September 9, 2025
Photo credit: Photo by Satoshi Hirayama/Pexels – Greetings in Japanese sound quite odd when literally translated to English.

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How Japanese introductions literally translate to English is a wild linguistics lesson

Parker Molloy

September 5, 2025