Posts by DonielF
Generally speaking, when adding a suffix to a word in English, while the last letter(s) may undergo changes to accommodate the addition, the rest of the word is left unchanged. As examples in that ...
According to Snopes, who knows what the true origin is. The faintly derogative epithet “son of a gun” has been documented as part of the lexicon of the English language since 1708, but no one ca...
One thing that’s always bothered me about the musical term timbre is its pronunciation. The word begs to be pronounced “timber,” yet it’s widely pronounced “tamber” instead. I understand the etymol...
NB: I know very little about linguistics. What is a "language" that questions about it would be on-topic here? Encyclopedia Britannica defines a language as "a system of conventional spoken, manua...
Unlike the other answerer, I speak Hebrew well but not much Spanish. Hopefully between the two of us we can resolve this question sufficiently. The original Hebrew reads, הגיד לך אדם מה טוב ומה...
