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What vocabularies tell us about different cultures

Medium Periodical Article
Medium - part of - (Periodical Copy) (Date) Feb2013 (Volume) 59
Medium (Periodical) E Magazine: the A-level English magazine.
Classif 820 EMA
Subject Language
Page 52-53
Authors de Boinod, Adam
Contents

Adam de Boinod first became interested in words, as a researcher for QI. Here he shares some of the more intersting discoveries he made while trawling the dictionaries of countries as diverse as Albania, Hawaii and the Cameroon.

Keywords
Cultures     Dictionaries     Languages     Words