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It took me slightly too long to find out why everything around here is labelled “IJ”, but this is an unrelated discovery that also supports my theory about “Y”.
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🎶 Pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember, pseudoword experiment shows
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Pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember, pseudoword experiment shows
Which words do we find beautiful? And do beautifully sounding words stick better in memory? A new study led by linguist Theresa Matzinger from the University of Vienna suggests that the phonemic composition of words influences how beautiful we perceive them to be, and how well we remember them. The findings are published in the journal PLOS One.

In #Germany we don‘t say Sneak Peek, we say
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Where ‘grift’ meets ‘graft’ - Columbia Journalism Review #words

Where ‘grift’ meets ‘graft’
Shortly after the arrest of Steve Bannon, President Trump’s former White House strategist, on fraud charges, the New York Times ran an editorial with the headline “Steve Bannon’s Art of the Grift.”  The word “grift” did not appear in the editorial. The Washington Post did use it: “The grift alleged is disgusting, if not surprising,” […]

Guys. I just understood a Spanish meme on the first try 😆
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https://masto.es/@emersson/115546469588268105

If "extravagant" means "exceeding the limits of reason or necessity", you'd think "vagant" means "at/within limits of reason or necessity", but no, English has to screw with us. 😠
#English #words #language #inconsistency