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@grammarphobia Osculation: A kiss is still a kiss #Grammar #Linguistics #Etymology
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Feb 9, 2026
@grammarphobia On the euphemism treadmill #Linguistics #Grammar #Etymology
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Feb 2, 2026
@grammarphobia When 'misery' rhymes with 'high' #Grammar #Linguistics #Etymology
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Jan 26, 2026
@grammarphobia Has the verb 'progress' progressed? #Grammar #Linguistics #Etymology
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Jan 19, 2026
@grammarphobia What a fetching Labrador retriever! #Linguistics #Etymology #Grammar
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Jan 12, 2026
@grammarphobia Are 'hopium' and 'copium' nope-iums? #Grammar #Linguistics #Etymology
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Jan 5, 2026
@rachit_nigam Formally speaking, "Transpiler" is a useless word #Programming #Compilers #Linguistics
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Dec 30, 2025
@grammarphobia How 'super' and 'bowl' touched down #Linguistics #Etymology #Language
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Dec 29, 2025
@grammarphobia We dasn't commit ourselves #Grammar #Linguistics #Etymology
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Dec 15, 2025
@grammarphobia Evacuation roots #Linguistics #Etymology #Grammar
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Dec 8, 2025
@grammarphobia 'Went to go see a movie' #Grammar #Linguistics #Etymology
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Dec 1, 2025
@works_in_progress The triumph of logical English #Language #Linguistics #Logic
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Nov 26, 2025
@npr_ted_radio_hour How the creator economy is making you talk like the internet #CreatorEconomy #InternetCulture #Linguistics
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Nov 14, 2025
@starkey_comics Etymologies of Endonyms and Exonyms #Etymology #Linguistics #Language
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Oct 31, 2025
@epistolary_purgatory Odd Parallels Between LLM Tokenization and 六书 #AI #Linguistics #Writing
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Oct 30, 2025
@starkey_comics Austronesian words for 'two' #Linguistics #Etymology #Language
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Oct 4, 2025
@frank_m_taylor CSS Hyphens, Words, Syllables, and Languages #CSS #WebDev #Linguistics
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Jul 17, 2025
@starkey_comics Indo-European Words for Ten #Linguistics #Etymology #Language
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Jun 23, 2025
@public_domain_review Charles Davy's Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772) #History #Writing #Linguistics
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Jun 3, 2025
@starkey_comics The Etymology of Every Toki Pona Word #Language #Etymology #Linguistics
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Mar 1, 2025
@starkey_comics British and Irish dialect words for "mother" #Language #Linguistics #Culture
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Jan 26, 2025
@ell_stackexchange what does a prepositional phrase that follows a that clause modify? #Grammar #English #Linguistics
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Jun 22, 2024
@russia_beyond Russian Classes: Confusing similar-sounding words #RussianLanguage #Linguistics #Education
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May 22, 2024
@russia_beyond How Russians created a new 'language' - 'Runglish' #Language #Culture #Linguistics
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May 16, 2024
@russia_beyond The most COMMON abbreviations of adverbs in Russian #RussianLanguage #Linguistics #Education
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May 3, 2024
@russia_beyond 'I wish you had a pimple on your tongue!': What does the Russian phrase mean? #RussianLanguage #Culture #Linguistics
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Apr 24, 2024
@hillel_wayne How old is the name 'Daniel'? #History #Linguistics #Etymology
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Apr 1, 2024
@russia_beyond Russian Classes: Surprising meaning of the verb 'to go' #RussianLanguage #Linguistics #Education
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Feb 5, 2024
@ell_stackexchange Can we use participle clauses as adverbial modifiers? #Grammar #English #Linguistics
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Dec 14, 2021
@ell_stackexchange Can "pre-" be used as a preposition? #Grammar #English #Linguistics
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Jun 18, 2019
@occasionally_cogent Extended DCGs in Prolog #Prolog #Programming #Linguistics
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Dec 9, 2018
@scifi_stackexchange Xenolinguist assigned to make first contact with space rabbits who cannot understand counterfactuals #SciFi #Linguistics #Aliens
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Nov 7, 2018
@jonathanmh The Sanskrit Effect #Sanskrit #Linguistics #Culture
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May 27, 2018
@bigger_on_the_inside Sapir-Whorf on Programming Languages #Programming #Linguistics #Cognition
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Sep 20, 2017
@marks_notes Danish place names, translated by Google #Linguistics #Translation #Culture
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Jan 10, 2017
@kottke The Adjective Word Order We All Follow Without Realizing It #Language #Linguistics #Grammar
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Sep 6, 2016
@scifi_stackexchange What does 'E chu ta' mean? #SciFi #Linguistics #PopCulture
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Jul 15, 2016
@nerderati Bijective Function Domains on Words in the English Language #Math #Linguistics #Programming
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Feb 26, 2010
@lemiffe Trying to Understand Language #Language #Linguistics #Cognition
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Sep 10, 2009