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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants ***EXTRA INFO AND SOURCES BELOW*** Vsauce2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2 Vsauce3: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce3 Great video about English spellings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYplM1QCv0Y soup etymology: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soup reduplication: http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/09/10/ikea_s_bookbook_soy_milk_vs_milk_milk_and_like_liking_contrastive_focus.html http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/redup-corpus.html https://solongasitswords.wordpress.com/tag/tmesis/ reduplication poem “After the Funeral”: http://www.boulevardmagazine.org/Collins.pdf retronyms: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/magazine/07wwln_safire.t.html morse code translator: http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html dog’s bollocks punctuation: http://pittmanlettersproject.com/2013/03/05/the-dogs-bollocks-you-say/ http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/09/frasers-phrases-the-dogs-bollocks/ emoticon history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#History overwhelmed tweet: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce/status/535424574880768000 USA’s Declaration of Independence [image]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.jpg Declaration of Independence punctuation analysis: http://archive.org/stream/punctuateitright008358mbp/punctuateitright008358mbp_djvu.txt Verbal nouns: http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/verbal_nouns.htm Steven Wright: http://www.avclub.com/article/steven-wright-13796 rebracketing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing unpaired words: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/unpaired.htm ELI5: Why is "nonchalant" a word, but "chalant" is not? Are there other English words like this? from explainlikeimfive scientific idioms: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/once-in-a-blue-moon-and-other-idioms-that-dont-make-scientific-sense-76485092/?no-ist http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/how-fossilised-ideas-live-on-in-language-and-science/ George Steiner book: http://goo.gl/pSbUlp emily
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Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/tweetsauce Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/electricpants ***EXTRA INFO AND SOURCES BELOW*** Vsauce2: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce2 Vsauce3: http://www.youtube.com/Vsauce3 Great video about English spellings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYplM1QCv0Y soup etymology: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soup reduplication: http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/09/10/ikea_s_bookbook_soy_milk_vs_milk_milk_and_like_liking_contrastive_focus.html http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/redup-corpus.html https://solongasitswords.wordpress.com/tag/tmesis/ reduplication poem “After the Funeral”: http://www.boulevardmagazine.org/Collins.pdf retronyms: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/magazine/07wwln_safire.t.html morse code translator: http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html dog’s bollocks punctuation: http://pittmanlettersproject.com/2013/03/05/the-dogs-bollocks-you-say/ http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/09/frasers-phrases-the-dogs-bollocks/ emoticon history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#History overwhelmed tweet: https://twitter.com/tweetsauce/status/535424574880768000 USA’s Declaration of Independence [image]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence.jpg Declaration of Independence punctuation analysis: http://archive.org/stream/punctuateitright008358mbp/punctuateitright008358mbp_djvu.txt Verbal nouns: http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/verbal_nouns.htm Steven Wright: http://www.avclub.com/article/steven-wright-13796 rebracketing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing unpaired words: http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/unpaired.htm ELI5: Why is "nonchalant" a word, but "chalant" is not? Are there other English words like this? from explainlikeimfive scientific idioms: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/once-in-a-blue-moon-and-other-idioms-that-dont-make-scientific-sense-76485092/?no-ist http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/how-fossilised-ideas-live-on-in-language-and-science/ George Steiner book: http://goo.gl/pSbUlp emily
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