Language – Page 12 – For Reading Addicts

Language Word of the Day

April 20, 2015

Kummerspeck (noun) (German) kUm-ir-shpek Excess weight gained due to emotional eating. This went around the…

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Guest Blogs Language

April 19, 2015

You know that bit at the start of a book that goes something like ‘all…

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Guest Blogs Language

April 11, 2015

Okay America what has the letter U ever done to you, to be treated so…

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Language Word of the Day

March 30, 2015

Tmesis (noun) t-mi-sis The separation of parts of a compound word by an intervening word…

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March 14, 2015

Of course any literary addict is well aware of how languages are created, but many…

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Language Word of the Day

March 4, 2015

Kintsukouroi (noun) kin-tsU-kU-roi From Japanese language (more…)

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Guest Blogs Language

March 4, 2015

English, born from so many other tongues, and being so rich in texture and depth,…

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March 2, 2015

Words have always come in and out of fashion, but every now and then you…

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