Chris Nicholson's Writing Weblog
February 26, 2009 • Thursday
The U.K.'s University of Reading reports that their research has uncovered the oldest words in the English language: among them are "I," "we," "two" and "three."
The research also claims to predict which modern-English words will disappear from our ever-evolving language first. ("squeeze," "guts" and "stick" are three.)
For more information, see the BBC article " 'Oldest English words' identified."
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