A case of anaptyxis, that is, vowel epenthesis, in contemporary English: how and possibly why some public speakers add an additional syllable to words like “doubling, athlete, paraplegic.”
Blog: Language
I’m in the Mood for the Subjunctive
An overview of how the French subjunctive mood is treated on this website, including both the basics and the more curious forms and functions of this mood.
Spotlight on Marie de France
Bisclavret, Marie de France’s fast-paced tale of twelfth-century love and lycanthropy, gets a new presentation and translation in a recently added text file.
French Subtitles Come to Scientific Method
The animated internet series Scientific Method will soon have closed captioning in English, and selected episodes, such as the very first one (“Ignorance Isn’t Bliss”) will have subtitles in French!
