Hi, The Iranian pizza/elastic snack (pitza/kesh loghmeh) story kept me buzy for a while. What bothered me was - the translation of kesh loghmeh, and especially loghmeh. This word doesn't really mean loaf, but something as snack, morsel, mouthful, and is used in a few other names for dishes and sweet...

Bigot bis Rather by accident, i found out that the word is also used in German and... :oops: Dutch, my native language. The etymologies presented in German and Dutch dictionaries raise more questions than they answer. Kluge Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache considers the link with 'bi ...

I was reading the Independent , when i came across this: "Gibson's second apology followed complaints from one prominent Jewish group, the Anti-Defamation League, that his first mea culpa, issued on Saturday, failed to get "to the essence of his bigotry and anti-Semitism". From the AH...

Pizze: "elastic loaves" I asked my wife about 'that other word for pizza' and she directly started to talk about 'kesh loghmeh' and started to laugh. Hardly anybody takes that Language Academy of Iran too seriously; many of their newly coined words feature jokes and word games. Danishes: ...

The Academy in Iran and its attempts to 'purify' the Persian language are much older than Mr Ahmadinejad and go way back to the 1930s. In 1935 there was the Farhangestan-e Iran, which changed name in the 1970 (Farhangestan-e zaban-e Iran, lit. the language academy of Iran). It's first (and still mai...

Wait up, Huny. I hate to presume to speak for Frank, but frankly I don't think that's what he meant. By "showing their 'college education'" I infer that he's asking for a greater number of serious, thoughtful posts to balance our light ones, and at the same time alluding back to Perry's n...

Frank, I was unaware that ones educational (college) status was a prerequisite to become a member on this MB...[other stuff snipped] Well, Hony, dude, ma'am -- i'm so sorry, i don't think i intended to say that that all. I think i only wrote about a balance between 'serious' stuff and witty stuff, ...

I have been following for the past weeks the decadence of this forum and its being changed into a chatroom. I'd hate for it to end up like the other one, which I was (and still am) very attached to. I say this because I think the chatting here is becoming absurd. For this purpose there are other pl...

The French probably borrowed the word from Middle Dutch mouwe "grimace" which may (or may not) be related to Modern Dutch mouwe "muscle". As far as i know, Modern Dutch 'mouwe' doesn't exist. I checked some recent and older Dutch dictionaries, but i couldn't find it. I also trie...

Lots of young Swedes pronounce the shoe label [naik].
If needed, I use the same pronunciation as for the Goddess: [ni:ke]

Over here we say [naik] and [naiki:]. Never heard [nikè] in connection with the sportswear.

Frank

Νίκη.
Can someone confirm that the famous trade mark has origin of this word?

Yes

F

What about tun, taten?

Apparantly, in all the Germanic languages a reduplicated form can/could be found back (also English 'did').

F

In Latin, the initial [dh] became [f], producing Latin facere "do, make" from which we get English factory and French faire "do, make". And Portuguese fazer, Spanish hacer, Italian fare, Romanian face, Catalan fer. Brazilian dude And in Dutch doen , deden (did), the only verb in...

[quote]has one of the most complex developments of English place names and illustrates the changes wrought in Old English words by Anglo-Norman scribes who could not pronounce them. Recorded 1016 as Scrobbesbyrig, it originally may have meant "the fortified place in (a district called) The Scru...

invincible ignorance (Theol.) ignorance beyond the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is not responsible before God. Lovely phrase! And verrrry useful! :-). It was so intriguing a word i looked up a few things and apparantly, the term is also used outside the field of theology (moral...