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valeriy_osipov wrote in linguaphiles
1 month ago

a Russian name for the letter Q

The letter Q looks like the letter O , but with a small tail at the bottom. Could the name of the letter Q relate to this tail? It is curious to make a comparison of the name of the letter Q to the French word queue (archaic cue, coe) "tail", also "penis", English queue "tail".…

valeriy_osipov wrote in linguaphiles
2 months ago

The Touchy Subject

Apparently, English etymologists are ticklish. That's why they don't want to touch on some sensitive topics. And very important ones. Let's take the concept of "young man, youth, guy". In English, LAD but experts in the English language do not want to connect LAD with the Old Russian LADA лада…

valeriy_osipov wrote in linguaphiles
3 months ago

Nose as a primarium of knowledge

No one would have challenged my title if I had added "for dogs and other animals". However, I am writing about the human nose. After all, the human being was the one who came up with the word NOSE back when he himself was largely belonged to the animal world. The human ceased to be an animal…

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