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Wander words: English words with foreign roots
LEXICOLOGYEnglish is a rich melting pot of words borrowed and adapted from languages across the globe. Many long, elegant, or even tongue-twisting English words have surprising backstories that trace ...
Who could be the new Pope? The cardinals who might become the next head of the Catholic Church
Four frontrunners have emerged as the most likely contenders known as papabile to succeed Pope Francis but at least a dozen ...
Greek City Times19h
Greek Alphabet May Be Centuries Older Than Previously Believed, Says Researcher
New research led by Associate Professor Willemijn Waal suggests that the Greek alphabet may have originated centuries earlier ...
Greek Reporter20h
New Findings Suggest Greek Alphabet Is Older Than Previously Thought
The Greek alphabet, believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is undergoing a reevaluation by Leiden University.
The Christian Century1d
The gods present their arguments
David Bentley Hart imagines Eros, Hephaistos, Hermes, and Psyche coming out of retirement to debate contemporary philosophy ...
This Culture’s Linguistic Fingerprints Are Everywhere—But Scientists Can’t Find Their DNA
It was previously believed that the Levantine DNA of the Phoenicians spread as far as their famous alphabet, which influenced ...
Trump Plugs a Dark-Horse American Candidate for Pope
But Trump did plug another dark-horse candidate who would also make history as the first American Pope. While he said he has ...
Nia Vardalos on bringing her acclaimed play to Athens — and performing for the first time in Greek
Nia Vardalos, star and writer of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is bringing her acclaimed play Tiny Beautiful Things to Athens — ...
Video. Nia Vardalos returns to her roots with Greek-language debut
Video. Nia Vardalos, star and writer of My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is bringing her acclaimed play Tiny Beautiful Things to ...
Discovered by chance, a mass grave revives memories of Greece's brutal civil war
Graves unearthed in northern Greece contain bones widely believed to be from victims of the country's civil war in the late 1940s ...
Greek Reporter2d
How Indo-European Became the World’s Largest Language Family, According to Experts
Experts trace the rise of Indo-European languages as the largest family, from ancient migrations to modern dominance.
My Cypriot grandfather was one of millions of foreign servicemen who fought for Britain. Now I’m telling their stories
Eighty years on from VE Day, it’s crucial we remember how ethnically diverse those veterans were and how much they can teach ...