Television, before it was fractured into a million... ...a boost to anyone learning a second language. Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains what is happen... ...adults around them. At the end, we find that Dr. Brozovsky is just as cute without the red lipstick.
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/22/How-Television-Affects-Language-Acquisition/A creole language is one that arises from a mixtur... ...will argue about whether English is a creole. Dr. Erica Brozovsky (previously at Neatorama) explains the formation...
https://www.neatorama.com/2024/11/02/The-Process-by-Which-New-Languages-Are-Born/When I started school in the 1960s, the two first... ...op students 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... ...ed the 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... ...o it. 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 don'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,... ...rience 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... ...form, 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... ...nd started saying "quack." Yeah, it's a mess. Dr. Erica Brozovsky tells us a bit of the history that got English wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2022/05/15/Why-English-Spelling-Makes-No-Sense/
