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How the Horse Got Its Shoe?
Some words have their own life until another word comes to replace them for a variety of reasons. Th...
How Art and Craft Came Together
We have seen many times how certain words have unexpected origins. For instance, the Proto-Indo-Euro...
The Choice Is Not Just One
The conjunction or may become a tricky one in Armenian. Unlike English, where you use or to give alt...
The Treasury that Became a Museum
We all know what a museum is. The –um ending of the English word museum sounds like Latin, and, inde...
How Did You Cut the Plate?
“I cut the plate?” “What did you do?” “I cut the plate.” This is how you would understand t...
How the Chestnuts Showed Up from Nowhere?
There are no-words in different languages that become words by a stroke of the pen. We have discusse...
Do You Print Money?
You may just earn a salary or be on the way to become a millionaire. In both cases, the English lang...
A Very Prolific Vowel
It is not usual that a vowel may also be a very meaningful word in a certain language. Such is the c...
Salty and Sweet
A previous column (April 28, 2016) explained how Armenian աղ (agh) and English salt were related to ...
Do Not Invent Words That Do Not Exist
Life is far from having a straight course. There are curves, shortcuts, reversals. Looking from outs...