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Zabaan

June 15, 2015

Avatar: the one who has descended

    The word avatar is certainly, and especially since the advent of 3D...

June 14, 2015

Yeavering: how halls of kings rose from the dust

    The great wooden hall was the hub of ancient Germanic...

June 13, 2015

Vowel sandhi 101

    This is the first in a series of 101 articles...

June 12, 2015

Wolf and wolves and foot and feet

  We all know that the plural of foot is not *foots but feet. This is, by...

Hands of Fate
June 11, 2015

The weird lottery of fate unravelled

  According to Greek mythology the fate of each and every individual is determined...

June 10, 2015

To be ... or not?

It will have escaped no one, that Germanic languages, such as English...

June 9, 2015

The erosion of cases

    Ink, as a tool for writing, has had a profound...

June 8, 2015

Stars: seeds of the gods

  English star, German Stern, Italian and Latin stella, Greek αστηρ (astēr) and Hindi तारा (tārā), all...

June 7, 2015

Speaking and answering in traditional epic narrative

    Although they are today read in books containing a stable and...