Linguistics — Graph — sahil.science

Almanac A Gas That Refused to Answer

What does the name 'argon' mean and why was it chosen?

Almanac Two Rescued Traditions, One Quiet Year

What language was Frédéric Mistral trying to preserve, and why was it disappearing?

Almanac Colour Sorted Itself Down a Glass Tube

Where does the word 'chromatography' come from?

Almanac Same Address, Different Weight

Where does the word 'isotope' come from, and what does it literally mean?

Almanac Same Place on the Table, Different Weight

Where does the word 'isotope' come from, and what does it mean?

Almanac Exile Made the Homeland Legible

Why was Seferis's choice to write in demotic Greek a significant act at the time?

Almanac A Photograph That Was Waiting for a Laser

What does the word 'holography' literally mean, and why did Gabor choose it?

Almanac An Accounting Symbol Finds Its Real Job

What was the @ symbol commonly used for before it became part of email addresses?

Almanac A Vanished World, Still Talking

Why did Singer choose to deliver his Nobel address in both Yiddish and English?

Almanac One Man's Twenty-Three-Year War for the Apostrophe

What was the mission of John Richards's Apostrophe Protection Society?
Why did Richards eventually dissolve the society after twenty-three years?
What is the grammatical difference between a plural and a possessive that the society was defending?

Almanac Whatever Can Go Wrong, Will

How did Murphy's Law spread from a press conference remark into common language?

Almanac The Three Letters That Break an Index

What problem does the word 'the' create for professional indexers?
What did Glenda Browne's paper on the definite article contribute to indexing practice?

Almanac Ireland's Most Cited Driver Never Existed

How did Irish police officers come to issue more than fifty traffic citations to a driver who did not exist?

Almanac Huh? Every Language Says It the Same

What phonetic shape does the word for 'huh?' tend to take across unrelated languages?
Why would unrelated languages independently converge on a similar sound for a repair word?

Almanac Why No Contract Covers Everything

What is Holmström's informativeness principle and how does it guide how pay should be tied to performance signals?

Almanac The Sentence That Won't Let Go Yet

What is a centre-embedded clause, and why does it strain working memory?
How did Eric Martínez's study test whether legal prose structure, rather than vocabulary, causes comprehension difficulty?
Did the study find any evidence that lawyers deliberately write to obscure meaning?

Almanac Some People Can Speak in Reverse

What does it mean to speak fluently backwards, and how does it differ from just reversing a few words?

Almanac Writing a Word Until It Dissolves

What is jamais vu, and how does it differ from déjà vu?
How did Chris Moulin's team induce jamais vu experimentally in volunteers?
What neurological explanation is offered for semantic satiation, the sense that a repeated word loses its meaning?