Digital Linguist

Linguistics for the digital world

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The English Language Infographic found here. 

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Indolicity

Unaptness to learn or be taught. Source: Nathan Bailey's Universal Etymological Dictionary - 1721

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Querimonious

Full of complaining and lamentation. Source: Cawdrey's Table Alphabetical - 1604

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Wamblecropt

Afflicted with queasiness.

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WORD OF THE WEEK

Surfeit: Noun: An excessive amount of something Verb: Cause (someone) to desire no more of something as a result of having consumed or done it to excess

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The above link is to an interactive version of the International Phonetics Alphabet Chart.

It displays the symbols for each sound we make as humans and by clicking on it we can hear the sound produced.

For anyone studying linguistics I highly recommend this tool and often makes up a good portion of any intro to linguistics course / exam.

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Bookkeeper is the only word in the English language with three consecutive sets of double letters

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English is the language with the most words with approximately 250,000 distinct words.

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Up Goer 5 - Natural Selection

Animals who are not together a long time and can't make babies together for a long time . Can't make babies together anymore and become different animals. Mr Darwin found this out when he when we went to an piece of land surrounded by water when he went there over one hundred years ago. This was a very important thing to know and helps us understand the world better.

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A text editor has been developed based on xkcd's comic Up Goer 5.

The text editor only allows you to use the top ten hundred words. (The word Thousand is not in this list)

Attempting to explain a complicated idea using this tool is rather difficult. Many scientists and PHD students take up this challenge for a little fun and I suggest anyone interested in this to give it a go.

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No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple.

  I still think lozenge rhymes with orange but that's just me.

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Dreamt is the only word in the English language that ends in the letters MT.

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"Facetious" and "Abstemious" are the only two words in the English language that contain the vowels A, E, I, O, and U in their proper order.

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The word "Queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.