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  Long, fancy words designed to show off your intelligence and vocabulary are all very well, but they aren’t always the best words. In this playful video, animated by Sunni Brown, Terin Izil explains why simple, punchy language is often the clearest way to convey a message.    

  “You’re a fishmonger!” By taking a closer look at Shakespeare’s words–specifically his insults–we see why he is known as a master playwright whose works transcend time and appeal to audiences all over the world.    

  All I can say about this blog I stumbled upon today is, “Incredibly wonderful!”. It is an online dictionary that lists these words that define various, subtle meanings of sorrow, so elegantly. Below is some examples of the often difficult-to-pronounce terms (thus, obscure, maybe) for the different ways we experience sorrow. chrysalism n. the [...]

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  Slang rarely has staying power. That is part of its charm; the young create it, and discard it as soon as it becomes too common. Slang is a subset of in-group language, and once that gets taken up by the out-group, it’s time for the in-crowd to come up with something new. So the [...]

  This simple and elegant short film by Temujin Doran is based on an archival sound recording taken from the 1945 Linguaphone series ‘English Pronunciation — A practical handbook for the foreign learner.’  

  The man who created supercalifragilisticexpialidocious died this month, leaving one of the longest English words as his legacy. A few are even longer — including names for proteins, and a rare disease.  

At an age when “ba-ba” and “da-da” may be their only utterances, infants nevertheless comprehend words for many common objects, according to a new study. In research focused on 6-to-9-month-old babies, University of Pennsylvania psychologists Elika Bergelson and Daniel Swingley demonstrated that the infants learned the meanings of words for foods and body parts through [...]

The following lists 15 very common grammar mistakes most of us are guilty of at some point or another. Some are obvious but others aren’t so much. In any case, know these by heart, use them properly and you are guaranteed to look very smart.   via