The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr 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 […]
No. English is only around 1400 years old, so it’s a given that the word was introduced from somewhere else. It’s just surprising that it took well over a thousand years before it finally was.
No. English is only around 1400 years old, so it’s a given that the word was introduced from somewhere else. It’s just surprising that it took well over a thousand years before it finally was.