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Ancient DNA and Uralic.
https://languagehat.com/ancient-dna-and-uralic/
Published: July 18, 2025 19:54
Christy DeSmith writes for Phys.org about a new DNA study: Where did Europeās distinct Uralic family of languagesāwhich includes Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonianācome from? New research puts their origins a lot farther east than many thought. The analysis,ā¦
Etymology Nerd.
https://languagehat.com/etymology-nerd/
Published: July 17, 2025 20:49
Callie Holtermann writes for the NY Times (archived) about a linguist who posts online as Etymology Nerd and who was mentioned here last year: Adam Aleksic has been thinking about seggs. Not sex, but seggs ā a substitute term that took off a few years agoā¦
Dhofari Deciphered.
https://languagehat.com/dhofari-deciphered/
Published: July 16, 2025 15:48
Soumya Sagar writes for Science about a new decipherment: Rock faces within the caves and dried riverbeds of Omanās Dhofar governorate bear nearly 2400-year-old writings that snake across the surface in a mysterious script. For more than a century, theseā¦
Lettervoxd.
https://languagehat.com/lettervoxd/
Published: July 15, 2025 18:38
Josh Sucher writes: Last week, my brother and I took in a screening of the 1976 classic Network that just happened to be captioned. As a result, it really struck me how impressive the vocabulary in that movie is. Immane! Oraculate! Auspicatory! So many ofā¦
Pookila.
https://languagehat.com/pookila/
Published: July 14, 2025 13:23
A news story introduced me to the word pookila, referring to what apparently is more commonly called the New Holland mouse. Naturally I was curious about the word, but it doesnāt appear to be in any dictionaries, not even Wiktionary. A little googling gotā¦
Global Latin.
https://languagehat.com/global-latin/
Published: July 13, 2025 21:21
New Perspectives in Global Latin: Second Conference on Latin as a Vehicle of Cultural Exchange Beyond Europe, edited by Elisa Della Calce, Paola Mocella, and Simone Mollea (de Gruyter, 2025), includes intriguing titles like āAfonso Mendes, the Catholicā¦
Samatarās Olondria.
https://languagehat.com/samatars-olondria/
Published: July 12, 2025 22:03
As I wrote here, one of my birthday presents this year was Sofia Samatarās A Stranger in Olondria (and I note with a shudder that that Amazon page says āA Stranger in Olondria: a novel (Olondria, 1)ā ā please donāt let this be yet another trilogy!); Iāveā¦
Winging It.
https://languagehat.com/winging-it/
Published: July 11, 2025 21:17
Jen in Edinburgh wrote me to say sheād been wondering āwhy we say that weāre going to āwingā something [ā¦] I have actually looked it up in the OED and found out ā but it wasnāt a reason I expected at all, so if it surprised me, maybe it will surprise otherā¦
Rajomon.
https://languagehat.com/rajomon/
Published: July 10, 2025 19:37
I just watched the āJapanese historical drama horror filmā Kuroneko (lots of fun if you like films with samurai and ghosts; this one features Minamoto no RaikÅ as a character, not to mention the titular black cat), and was struck when a large city gate wasā¦
Bullitt.
https://languagehat.com/bullitt/
Published: July 9, 2025 21:08
I rewatched Bullitt and was gripped once more by what this Wikipedia article calls āthe first modern car chase movie.ā But that is not a topic for LH; it suddenly occurred to me to wonder what kind of a name Bullitt is, and that makes for a post (a thinā¦
Block Ornaments.
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Published: July 8, 2025 20:10
I recently ran across the term block ornament, completely opaque unless you know the meaning; OED (entry revised 2022): slang (British and Australian) Obsolete. A small piece of inferior meat placed for sale on the butcherās block, as opposed to a jointā¦
Kooloora Revives Darkinjung.
https://languagehat.com/kooloora-revives-darkinjung/
Published: July 7, 2025 18:08
Or, to put it more expansively and comprehensibly, Toukleyās Kooloora Preschool revives endangered Darkinjung Aboriginal language; Sarah Forster and Emma Simkin report for ABC on the kind of program I like supporting (Iāve added links): Students at a NSWā¦