Mapping the different titles of the movie “Home alone”
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Film
Film
Cardinal
North / South West / East
Nothing
A map of the word nothing in several different languages and its etymology
Metro Europe
What if Europe’s train network system were a metro transit map?
Nightmare
Nightmares were a mystery often explained as evil spirits visiting people when they are most vulnerable, during sleep. Many languages will make reference to the …
Alphabet
A R T
The gender of a word in linguistics is a category that divides the nouns into different classes. It can range from two to four, or …
America
Castilian? Isn’t that Spanish too? Yes. They are synonyms however in some places one is used more than the other. There is a map from …
Herbs
Basil, the king This etymology map is about the names of one culinary herb, basil. It comes from βασιλικόν φυτόν (basilikón phutón) “royal (plant)” in Ancient Greek. The …
Nuts
Hazelnut Walnut Byzantines knew them as “royal nut”. For Germanic speakers is a “Welsh nut” because it came from Italy through France. We are just …