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by Jun 26, 2018Linguistics

True story I just have to share somewhere: I recently asked a precious and generous and godly and intelligent family friend if she had “Apple Pay,” the iPhone-based payment system, so I could quickly remunerate her for something she’d just given my wife. She just stared at me. She thought I was using Pig Latin—applepay—and she didn’t know what “Papple” was, or why she would be expected to have it. This error that only a clever person could make has brought me no end of delight.

(It turns out that papple *is* a thing, but only barely.)

(Language is so fun and cool!)

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The Original Pronunciation for Shakespeare’s Plays

The Original Pronunciation for Shakespeare’s Plays

Well isn't this fascinating. Shakespeare's plays were pronounced significantly differently when they were originally performed. And we miss some humor and rhyming because of it. It is more than possible—and this video argues that it is pretty well universal—that...

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