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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Oldest English Words Revealed

A game of Scrabble might not have been all that different in Stone Age times.

Using a computer simulation, a British researcher says he's examined the rate of change of words in languages to reveal the oldest English-sounding words, which would have been used by Stone Age humans 20,000 years ago.More here.

Among the Stone Age words that presumably would've sounded then much like they do now in the English language: I, we, two and three.

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