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The mysterious origins of punctuation

A nerdy, fascinating read from Keith Houston for BBC Culture: The mysterious origins of punctuation

Oldest English words

Researchers have recently released interesting analysis of our language, using historical documents to trace the usages of words and relationships between languages. This BBC article reports a handful of words that are among the oldest (I, we, two, and three, but not four), and which words the research predicts may soon fall from use (dirty, …

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