Posts tagged with "Fun"

Why do we call people redheads instead of orangeheads?

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As a father of a redhead, I found the article above on Grammar Girl interesting from Gretchen McCulloch of All Things Linguistic. It turns out that one aspect of it is that at the time the term originated red and orange were not distinguished, but that can't completely explain why other possibilities were not used. The article includes a podcast as well for those who prefer to listen to things.

Language review 2013 – bitcoin, sharknado, selfie

The virtual linguist has posted a link to the 2013 language review on the Oxford Dictionaries website. To everyone who made fun of me at SBL for not knowing what a "bitcoin" was, cut me some slack. It seems relatively new since it just made it in to this year's language review. Also, making an appearance are "sharknado" and "selfie." Check out this year's language review in the title link to this post; check out the virtual linguist in the link in the first sentence.