What's in a word (hoard)
Hint: lots and lots and lots of stuff
English is an odd language.
My favorite odd feature is how it mixes two very different linguistic lineages: Latinate and Germanic. The mixing has been going on in English for hundreds of years (ever since the Great Vowel Shift of the 15th century), but all that time hasn’t yet given us a nice smooth blend. English is more like raw concrete than tar; it’…
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