Skip to main content

Do you know what languages these words come from?


English is, by any reckoning, a very large language. No one is entirely certain how many words it contains (since it is very difficult to get everyone to agree on how to count them), but general estimates are somewhere in the neighborhood of a million (it’s a very large neighborhood). Think you can name where the following words come from?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/where-in-the-world

Popular posts from this blog

*FREE* internet access

F rom your home for one month for up to 10 devices! Swing by the Munson or the North Amherst Libraries and pick up your Family Wi-Fi Hotspot .  

Come strum!

  Monday night!  

Public library inspiration

  Check out this Guardian article on beautiful new public libraries from around the world.