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Saturday, September 27, 2014

McEnglish

In an excerpt from The Language of Food, Dan Jurafsky considers the logic of junk-food brand names: Across most languages of the world, front vowels tend to be used in words for small, thin, light things, and back vowels in words for big, fat, heavy things. It’s not always true, but it’s a tendency that […]

An interesting read via The Dish


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