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If anyone's wondering how things are going in the Czech Republic, the police have been offering an amnesty for weaponry and this week someone in Hradec Králové surrendered a pink

One older meaning of the word 'quick' is 'living'.We can see this in the phrase 'the quick and the dead', which is a translation of Latin 'vīvōs et mortuōs'.However, 'quick'

The word 'tithe' not only means 'tenth' (specifically of money or goods) - it once *was* the English word for 'tenth'.It comes from Old English teoþa, which was just an

One interesting sound change in Old Latin was the change of /dw/ into /b/.For example, bellum 'war' (from which English gets 'bellicose' and 'belligerent') was once duellom.However, duellom did survive

A History of Late Latin Grammar, Part 1: One big difference between Latin and the Romance languages is how they connect clauses together.Latin made much use of the word ut

An Introduction to the Celtic Language Family: some more info, for the perplexed:Celtic is a family of languages that were once spoken from Ireland to Anatolia (see: Galatians, St Paul's

the Norman Conquest wasn't the only way Latin-derived words entered English - many were borrowed later, directly from Latinthis has led to numerous pairs of Latinate words, one taken directly,

Latin has several words for 'speak, say', one of which is fārīat first glance, fārī might not seem to have any English descendants. However, its present participle is fāns, meaning

got a question for you - what's heavier? that's right - it's a kilogramme of steel, because steel is heavier than feathers boy, this one's really sorting out the online