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A Comic Word
For those of our readers who are into comics, particularly the series X-Men, there is a female chara...
Sweet in Every Language
There are words that have an ultimate common source from another language, but have found their way ...
Talent Weighs a Lot
People look for talent everywhere, starting with talent shows in elementary school. Interestingly, w...
The “Apple” That Came from China . . . or India
You cannot compare apples with oranges, but of course, you can compare an orange and a նարինջ (narin...
Where Is He? Here or There?
If you were looking for someone, one answer to the question above could be: “He may be either here o...
The Wandering Cat
English and Armenian share a very similar name for cats: the Armenian form is կատու (Western Armenia...
Two Is Company
When you say, “We have company tonight,” one of the implications might be that one or more people ar...
Some Armenian Words That Sound (Almost) Like English… Or Not
As Indo-European languages, Armenian and English share vocabulary that comes from the depths of hist...
How Did We End With 38 Letters?
It is common knowledge that Mesrop Mashtots invented the Armenian alphabet with 36 letters in the fi...
The Armenian Carpet
British polymath Sir William Jones (1746-1794) enunciated for the first time the existence of the In...