The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years
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 / FlickrOne of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintessential…
bubmagNovember 9, 2020