8 Languages With Different Names for the Hogwarts Houses
The Hogwarts houses in Harry Potter stay pretty much the same in most of translations of the books—but some languages go a different way.
The Hogwarts houses in Harry Potter stay pretty much the same in most of translations of the books—but some languages go a different way.
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We experience the world through our senses, so it makes sense that our language should reflect those senses. This group of words traces back to the basic elements of taste: sour, bitter, sweet, and salty.
You probably know a handful of medical terms—but what about Code Brown? Or incarceritis?
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There are a whole slew of everyday words in English that have origins in Irish and Gaelic.
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Most importantly: If you don’t have anything to say, don’t keep talking.
Dust off your feather bonnet and get out that kilt—today is International Bagpipe Day!
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Haters gonna hate. And with the Greek roots mis- and miso-, they can hate a whole lot of stuff.
The words we use for family members in English are specific about some things, but vague about others. These words will help fill in the gaps.
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English number words are pretty logical for the most part, but eleven and twelve really don’t fit in at all.
Vikings had some really descriptive epithets.
Knowing how to speak two languages is not the same thing as knowing how to translate. Don't believe us? Here are nine times a little translation mistake turned into a big problem.
Much has been made of the hidden significance behind the film’s most famous line, but how about the names? From birds to gluttons to just what the heck “silence of the lambs” means, here's a look at the significance of six names from the film.
Two thousands years is a long time. Even words that originated in ancient Greek can evolve considerably, even if their English counterparts retained the original definition.
The British have many delightful and colorful expressions that often make no sense to the rest of the world.
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Humans have long been obsessed with the idea of man-like machines they could dominate—or be dominated by. But the word 'robot' is just 90 years old, and the blockbuster play that introduced the word has long since been forgotten.