Sometimes you learn something in a random place and when you least expect it. Even better is when it’s off-beat and funny.
For example: this Dinosaur Comic sent to me by an English Professor-type friend (after he used it in a lecture on Chaucer).
And, just like the better parts of Jurassic Park: the Lost World, dinosaurs have served to teach us something important… about ourselves.
And that’s a paleo-linguistic… thump… thump… thump… Reference Bomb! Bam!
Read more:
Wiki entry on the Great Vowel Shift.
History of the English language.
NPR Report on a Vowel Shift happening RIGHT NOW!
Freebie: some Jurassic Park dinosaur biological inaccuracies.
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