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Posts about history, language, code, and random shower thoughts. he/they. Brooklyn. 💗💜💙 profile pic alt text: Picture of me, a brown guy with a medium-short black beard and hair in a ponytail going a bit down one shoulder
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'Protest' comes from Latin pro + testari (to declare publicly). Testari, also the root for testify, traces back to PIE *tris + *steh (third one standing), referring to a third party witness who could vouch for two others making a deal #linguistics and free palestine

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You know how some accents say 'what' almost like 'hwat'? That's actually the older pronunciation that's existed since Proto-Germanic times Over a few hundred years most English speakers switched to a /w/ sound for words like 'what' and 'when' in what's called the wine-whine merger #linguistics

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KHkeithputnam.bsky.social

Shh, everyone prefers the “grabbing your testicles” folk etymology!

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Hwaet?!

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Tamreen
@scriptor.bsky.social
Posts about history, language, code, and random shower thoughts. he/they. Brooklyn. 💗💜💙 profile pic alt text: Picture of me, a brown guy with a medium-short black beard and hair in a ponytail going a bit down one shoulder
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