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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Maps about the diversity of the Spanish language vocabulary
Tv shows and language. When we talk about cultural mapping, the definition of culture that comes first to our minds is the Great European Culture: …
The sweet tooth kids The tiny boy The red girl The ashen girl Probably one of the most famous stories ever told, Cinderella got her …
Wikipedia language codes are the letters at the beginning of the address for each language version. They are not the same as Internet top-level domains, …
“That’s Greek to me” or “It’s all Greek to me” is an idiom used when you can not understand something. The origin might be in …
Bookworm is an umbrella term, more popular than scientific, for the holes caused by larvae of various types of insects. This includes a huge variety of …