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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
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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'
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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