Apples grow on trees, and the government prints money. And words — words come from, well, other words. For example, the Lilliputians of Jonathan Swift’s “Gulliver’s Travels” lent their name to a ...
SHOULD YOU be insulted or delighted to be called a bosthoon? Would you wear a taggeen or drink it? And is it a compliment to be described as carnaptious? While you are unlikely to hear these words ...
For the last five years, a team of researchers from Cambridge University and Queen’s University Belfast have meticulously combed through manuscripts dating all the way back to the 6th century in order ...
The new dictionary highlights links between language in use in historic Yorkshire and J K Rowling's Harry Potter novels Harry Potter fans may know their squibs from their nifflers but may be surprised ...
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