The English lexicon includes some terms known as "proper words," which today apparently exist only in English. Cognates for them cannot be found in any other language. These are very simple and common ...
The origins of English expressions are often obscure and require deep linguistic and documentary research to be explained. Being phrases, not single words, their intrinsic meanings can be ...
Detail from Tacuinum Sanitatis, a 14th-century handbook of medieval health. The naming process, the act of naming the items of the world, is as old as the first words spoken by our ancestors. We can ...
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