Why all babies say “mama”
It's one of language's few universal words, for reasons that have nothing to do with maternal love
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Isaac Newton’s universal language
The famed physicist and mathematician also had a passion for linguistics -- and even devised his own idiom
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Our favorite bits of 1920s slang
Phrases like French kiss, blind date, sexpert and backseat driver were all coined in the roaring twenties VIDEO
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It’s OK to use incomplete sentences. Really
Forget what you learned in school. When it comes to writing sentence fragments, even Shakespeare broke the rules
Thursday, Apr 18, 2013 6:45 PM UTC 46Life The Week, Language, Grammar
From baseball to beisuboru: Foreign languages steal from English too
When adopted by different cultures, English words can take on totally different sounds and meanings
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Inside the topsy-turvy world of contronyms
Fourteen words that, depending on their context, can mean the opposite of what you think they mean
Sunday, Apr 7, 2013 8:00 PM UTC 22Life The Week, words, Language
J: The sexiest letter
Although less than 1 percent of English words start with J, the consonant has some steamy connotations
Sunday, Apr 7, 2013 6:59 PM UTCLife The Week, words, humor, alphabet
Christie: GOP should not support Akin
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