Words, puns, grammar...

The language tree and the Nordic cats

I have always been fascinated by language. I came across this tree and an illustration of how one language in the same geographic area as a few others that have much in common turned out to have emerged from a completely separate branch. What this and the other languages in the area have in common amounts to nothing, zilch, nada, rien, niente and so on...

Words, words, words

These word clouds are fun. They contain words from the old days until right now. The author is British, so some of the words may have different meanings in the US and many haven't been used for centuries on either side of the pond!

English is a funny language