Posts From Dilorom Ashurova
Did Shakespeare write his plays?
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/did-shakespeare-write-his-plays-natalya-st-clair-and-aaron-williams Some people question whether Shakespeare really wrote the works that bear his name – or whether he even existed at all. Could it be true that the greatest writer in the English language was as fictional as
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The language of lying
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-language-of-lying-noah-zandan We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day. And although we’ve spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect these lies by tracking physiological changes in their tellers, these methods have proved
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The true story of ‘true’
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-true-story-of-true-gina-cooke The older the word, the longer (and more fascinating) the story. With roots in Old English, ‘true’ shares etymological ancestors with words like betroth and truce…but also with the word tree. In fact, trees have been metaphors
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Why we say “OK”
How a cheesy joke from the 1830s became the most widely spoken word in the world. OK is thought to be the most widely recognized word on the planet. We use it to communicate with each other, as well as
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Where do new words come from?
View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/where-do-new-words-come-from-marcel-danesi There are over 170,000 words currently in use in the English language. Yet every year, about a thousand new words are added to the Oxford English Dictionary. Where do they come from, and how do they make
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