[Ipg-smz] The English Word That Hasn’t Changed in Sound or Meaning in 8,000 Years

[Mac McCarthy]

Cool!

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On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 9:11 AM Gabe Goldberg <gabe at gabegold.com> wrote:

> One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of
> linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more
> quintessential New York food than a lox bagel—a century-old popular
> appetizing store, Russ & Daughters, calls it “The Classic.” But Guy, who
> has lived in the city for the past 17 years, is passionate about lox for
> a different reason. “The pronunciation in the Proto-Indo-European was
> probably ‘lox,’ and that’s exactly how it is pronounced in modern
> English,” he says. “Then, it meant salmon, and now it specifically means
> ‘smoked salmon.’ It’s really cool that that word hasn’t changed its
> pronunciation at all in 8,000 years and still refers to a particular fish.”
>
>
> http://nautil.us/blog/the-english-word-that-hasnt-changed-in-sound-or-meaning-in-8000-years
>
> Wish I had some now...
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