A little something for the language buffs among us. The Structure of English Words taught by Professor Will Leben (iTunes) is another Stanford course. Thanks to historical, cultural, and linguistic factors, English has by far the world’s largest vocabulary—leading many of us to have greater than average difficulty with words, and some of us to have greater than average curiosity about words.
To find out more you may want to read this post on Open Culture.
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