When I started school in the 1960s, the two first... ...dents in high school were from Class A. Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) looks at both these met...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/09/19/The-War-Between-Phonics-and-Whole-Word-reading/When we say that someone talks like a sailor, that... ...first half of this sentence. Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky of Otherwords (previously at Neatorama) tells us...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/08/22/Why-Do-We-Use-So-Many-Nautical-Terms/If you want to build a cult around yourself, you h... ...In this episode of Otherwords, linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains the regular fo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/06/20/The-Language-That-Builds-Cults/Everyone has an anthroponym, but that's okay. It's... ...t name their daughters "Miss" anymore). Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains why names beco...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/30/Does-Your-Anthroponym-Reveal-Your-Age/When a parent or partner calls you by a pet name,... ...from long ago. Our favorite linguist, Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) goes over the universal...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/05/13/Sugarpie-Honeybunch-Where-Pet-Names-Come-From/Linguist Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) makes us feel a little...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/03/05/Your-Mispronounced-Words-Explained-and-Excused/First let's learn the word "toponym," which means... ...like Mt. McKinley reverting to Denali. Dr. Erica Brozovsky looks into how places are named and why, plus a l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2023/10/23/What-We-Can-Learn-from-Toponyms/English is such a difficult language that we have... ...rted saying "quack." Yeah, it's a mess. Dr. Erica Brozovsky tells us a bit of the history that got English wh...
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