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worldwidewords.org
WWW - World Wide Words
Michael Quinion
about international English from a British viewpoint
The English language - its history, quirks, curiosities and evolution
(E?)(L?) http://www.worldwidewords.org/
The English language is forever changing. New words appear; old ones fall out of use or alter their meanings. World Wide Words tries to record at least a part of this shifting wordscape by featuring new words, word histories, words in the news, and the curiosities of native English speech.
After 20 years writing about the peculiarities and evolution of the English language, I stopped suddenly and finally early in 2017. Truth be told, after 930 issues of my weekly newsletter I was becoming written out. Every week that passed made writing more of a chore and less of a pleasure. So I shall no longer be sending out newsletters nor adding or updating pages on the site.
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Erstellt: 2021-03