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Republish for FreeRepublish This StoryRepublish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. The original literal sense of absymal in the 17th century, was ‘very deep’ and people did not start using it to describe something utterly appalling, ‘the pits’, until the beginning of the 20th century.The word is related to abyss, which is from the … [Read more...] about abysmal

Republish for FreeRepublish This StoryRepublish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. An academy today is a place of learning or culture.It is fitting then that the word originated with one of the most influential scholars who ever lived, the Greek philosopher, Plato. During the 4th century BC he taught in a garden in the north western … [Read more...] about academy

Republish for FreeRepublish This StoryRepublish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. What do the Chinese, Swedish and Zulu languages have in common? When we talk about accents in a written form we are talking about emphasis or stress marks above the letters described as: Grave, Acute, Circumflex, Tilde, Umlaut and Dot; NOT a national … [Read more...] about accent