Skeptophilia

My master's degree is in historical linguistics, and one of the first things I learned was that it's tricky to tell if two words are...

My master's thesis is titled, "The Linguistic Effects of the Viking Invasions on England and Scotland," which should put it in...

There's an ongoing war of words between people who consider themselves generalists  and those who consider themselves specialists . I re...

Linguists estimate that there are a little over seven thousand languages spoken in the world, sorted into around four hundred language famil...

The first thing I learned in my studies of linguistics is that languages aren't static. It's a good thing, because my field is histo...

The title of my master's thesis was The Linguistic and Cultural Effects of the Viking Invasions on England and Scotland .  I don't t...

As you might expect from someone who is passionately interested in genealogy, linguistics, and evolutionary genetics, when there's a stu...

There's a logical fallacy called appeal to authority , and it's trickier than it sounds at first. Appeal to authority occurs when yo...

When a region is conquered, one of the first things the conquerors usually do is to suppress (or explicitly outlaw) indigenous languages. On...