Done. Thank you for suggesting I suggest it.

If the good doctor wishes to extend his discussion of linguistic techical terms, may I suggest he consider "epenthesis," defined as "the insertion of a vowel or consonant into a word to make its pronunciation easier." Examples abound such as "[the] development of Middle Engl...

Wikipedia says Although [Henry II] was King of England, he never learnt the English language because his family had come over from Normandy in 1066. They spoke Norman French. Henry was intelligent and well educated. He spoke Latin fluently, which was the language of educated people in Europe at that...

Slava, since you provided a link to Dr Goodword's short essay on the Fickle S and N, I would like to ask if you are aware of any similar essays by Dr. G. on rhotic phonemes in languages in general. I recently noticed that no native Japanese words has any words with an initial /r/. (NB I am contrasti...

"The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of North American Birds" by J. K. Terres (Alfred A. Knopf: 1987) has the following explanation "[The] common name (GOD-wit) [comes] from Old World and origin uncertain; Gruson (1972) suggests it may have originated in Old Eng[lish] phrase 'god wicht',...

Bar-tailed godwits (Limosa lapponica) migrate some 10,000 km from Western Alaska to New Zealand and Australia and back every year. They do this either non-stop or with one re-fueling stop on the Yellow Sea. One reference says that fat is about 50% of their body mass at the start of the migration, an...

I am reminded of John Donne's poem "A Hymn to God the Father" that repeats the line "When thou hast done, thou hast not done" in the earlier stanzas but in the last stanza changes the line to "And, having done that, thou hast done"

Unindicted co-conspirators 1 to 6 only the most prominent quislings in the current brouhaha.

The Encyclopedia of North American Birds by John K. Torres says that "The common name 'booby' comes from the Spanish 'bobo,' a dunce (Murphy, 1936); so named because of their apparent lack of fear, which makes them easy to catch (Gilliard, 1958)." The family name is Sulidae, from Icelandic...

The Ngram viewer says capitalization has been favored since 1800. However, capitalization over lower case grew rapidly in popularity beginning around 1970.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c ... moothing=3

Slava, I believe "resolutional" in "4 resolutional layers" in the Ngram View quote and "high-resolutional screens" in your example both use "resolutional" in the sense set out in this dictionary definition: ▸ noun: the ability of a microscope or telescope to m...

The Ngram Viewer says "zeitgeist of the times" has been trending since about 1985.
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c ... moothing=3

The Ngram Viewer says there was a peak around 1990. Here's a quote in the anticipated usage: Feature Number of Area Images M1 16 M2 17 M3 14 M4 17 Feature Images Approximation images of 4 resolutional layers and absolute wavelet images ( = 12 images ) Original image , energy images , computed within...

Voiceless bilabial fricatives are somewhat irrelevant to the pronunciation of the /u/ of "umami." I merely mentioned it to get your lips in a position suitable for making the unrounded vowel [ɯ]. Nonetheless, here is a Wikipedia article on bilabial voiceless fricatives. Note the list of la...

If you want to pronounce it in English as it is in Japanese, you need to know Japanese has only five vowels and no diphthongs. Wikipedia describes the high back vowel /u/ as follows: /u/ is a close near-back vowel with the lips unrounded ([ɯ̟])[43][44] or compressed ([ɯ̟ᵝ]).[5][45] When compressed, ...