Is Cereal Soup?
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Published 2015-01-01
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**EXTRA INFO AND SOURCES BELOW**
Vsauce2:
youtube.com/Vsauce2
Vsauce3:
youtube.com/Vsauce3
Great video about English spellings: • The English Language Makes No Sense!
soup etymology: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soup
reduplication:
www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/09/10/ikea…
home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/redup-corpus.html
solongasitswords.wordpress.com/tag/tmesis/
reduplication poem “After the Funeral”: www.boulevardmagazine.org/Collins.pdf
retronyms: www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/magazine/07wwln_safire.…
morse code translator: morsecode.scphillips.com/jtranslator.html
dog’s bollocks punctuation:
pittmanlettersproject.com/2013/03/05/the-dogs-boll…
www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/09/frasers-phr…
emoticon history: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon#History
overwhelmed tweet: twitter.com/tweetsauce/status/535424574880768000
USA’s Declaration of Independence [image]: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/United…
Declaration of Independence punctuation analysis: archive.org/stream/punctuateitright008358mbp/punct…
Verbal nouns: www.grammar-monster.com/glossary/verbal_nouns.htm
Steven Wright: www.avclub.com/article/steven-wright-13796
rebracketing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracketing
unpaired words:
www.worldwidewords.org/articles/unpaired.htm
www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1zrr1k…
scientific idioms:
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/once-in-a-bl…
aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/how-fossilised-ideas-l…
George Steiner book: goo.gl/pSbUlp
emily dickinson quote: www.edickinson.org/editions/1/image_sets/240360
see Joyce Carol Oates' quote about inventing symbols here: www.nytimes.com/1999/12/30/opinion/the-calendar-s-…
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