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The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than […]
What’s the Great Vowel Shift?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
Interesting. So the middle English vowel sounds were more consistent with like how the Japanese pronounced them
Yes, as well as a lot of other languages. Spanish has a similar pronunciation to Japanese, I believe.
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