Andrew Clegg asks "Is this true?" I'm more familiar with a different just-so story intended to explain the same alleged generalization: infants' phonetic abilities are initially limited, and this creates pressure to develop variants of words for caregivers (and other things infants are likely

A simple back-formed verb in Bizarro: The cartoon helpfully supplies the source of the verb, the noun information.

More than a century ago, “Unserdeutsch” was invented by missionary school children in the South Seas

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