The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential New York food than […]
A couple thousand years ago German and English hadn’t even split off from each other — they were the same language.
Yeah, English is a Germanic language. The same way Spanish and French are romantic, and derived from Romans.
Yeah, it was called Gerlish. At least in Gerlish it was.