American English ― where from?

THERE has been much talk about American English, in terms ancestral. Researchers have analyzed speech and "derived" sounds with particularity worthy of Pygmalion. More→

No man, woman, child, or house, with the pie

The Proto-Indo-European "mother of tongues" does not have words for men, women, children, or houses that European languages would have in common. More→

Tongue entanglement

IT may have been predilection for physical factors to inspire the name "Hiberno-English", for Irish English. Ireland was named Hibernia by ancient Romans. Evidently they felt cold, yet the British do not speak "Birran English", though birrus was a word for an ancient Roman rain poncho. More→