Seamus Heaney used "so" as the opening word of his translation of Beowulf (standing for the OE "hwaet" (whose meaning is still discussed) As for "e...

How funny to hear the calque "from home"! (I'm Polish). I would like to take issue, though, with Martha's pronunciation of "z domu" - "z" is pronounce...

Thanks for looking that up. I thought it could be "Noo Yawk tawk" (the series takes place in upstate NY, I think, or at least within driving distance ...

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KseniaMultilingua said Hello there, I'm Russian and we too use the idiom 'it will get well before you marry'. Although in the Russian version it is '...

deacon8, the details you've dug up are fascinating. However, Oxford Dictionaries give the pronunciation of gill as a female ferret with soft "g" - Oxf...