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Basque words in English

Posted 84 days ago by John Gray

Basque is a fascinating language. Despite speculations that it may, somehow, be related to language groups from Eastern Europe, it is essentially that rarest of linguistic phenomena, a language that emerged independently of its neighbours, and preserved its individuality throughout …

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Myriad myriads

Posted 121 days ago by John Gray

Yesterday, in Mario Vargas Llosa’s La Fiesta del Chivo, I came across a word I didn’t know. It was: miríada. For my sins, I am accustomed to skipping over words that I don’t recognise, particularly in a long book like …

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Best of ‘untranslatable’ words

Posted 294 days ago by John Gray

There are a lot of these lists of ‘untranslatable’ words on the internet. Of course, it’s not that they are untranslatable, simply that there is no precise (i.e. one-word-long) equivalent in English, hence their charm – they seem to compress …

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Verschlimmbessern

Posted 458 days ago by John Gray

Thanks to guest blogger Irene Boa for this post! This word is as German as it gets – first of all, it is pleasantly long and contains a satisfactory number of single and double consonants, secondly it reflects a tendency …

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