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To do to spite Russia and be made a fool of: even the Kazakhs themselves do not understand their Latin alphabet
EADaily, June 29th, 2026. There are countries in the world that switch to the Latin alphabet because it is so convenient for IT technologies. There are countries that are moving because linguists have ...
The Russian alphabet has 33 letters, but this song from Russian Sesame Street is so catchy, it doesn't seem like so many. The Malaysian language can be written with the Latin alphabet or in Jawi, a ...
How do you justify Arabic text? It’s a simple question, but—as cataloged in a lengthy interactive post on the blog La Vita Nouva—it has a remarkably deep and fascinating answer. The story begins with ...
Content creator RobWords explains the history behind the hashtag or pound sign, along with other common symbols that have ...
Does a real video show officials at a ribbon cutting ceremony for a new asphalt road in Mukhosransk, Russia -- a road which was really just a fake roll-up prop? No, that's not true: This video is ...
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck the world, Autumn Zacherl was in sixth grade. And she used it to her advantage. “It ...
Chip Chick on MSN
She was a nun thought to be possessed in 1676, and she wrote a devil letter that took 341 years to decode
On August 11, 1676, a 31-year-old nun named Sister Maria Crocifissa della Concezione was found on the floor of her room in the convent of Palma di Montechiaro in Sicily. She had fainted, her face was ...
A flaxen-haired young man appeared in my social media feed some months ago singing Homer’s Iliad in Ancient Greek. Yes, singing it. Arum Natzorkhang, (his online name), is a 24-year-old ...
The Spectator on MSN
The unique charisma of Pope Francis
The anniversary of Pope Leo XIV’s election last month generated lots of thoughtful but inconclusive analysis from mainstream ...
Alphabet joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Monday. The stock is tracking for its worst month since February of last year, a big change from May when it briefly eclipsed Nvidia by market cap ...
The NATO version uses “Alpha” for A, “Bravo” for B and “Charlie” for C, and so on. My version would use “Alamo” for A, ...
Alphabet will replace Verizon in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The California-based company will join mega-cap tech peers Nvidia, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft in the blue-chip index. Honeywell ...
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