Posts Tagged: language

  • Ogham text in the The Book of Ballymote

    Ogham signed by the Druids

    Understanding where the word, ogham, comes from is difficult but may help substantiate the belief that ogham was a secret Druid language.

  • Artwork from Stranger in A Strange Land book grok was the martian language

    My my, hey hey is grok here to stay?

    It is a stretch of the imagination to suggest that our only Martian word is yet part of mainstream English but grok has survived for almost 50 years!

  • The Basque language is considered one of Europe’s oldest languages. The authors suggest it survives from the stone age. Jingo is one of the few words that English may have taken from it. IMAGE: Basque man on balcony

    By jingo it’s Basque

    I have just finished reading a wonderful book on language called WORDS: the evolution of western languages (Edited by Victor Stevenson, Van Nostrand Rheinhold Company Inc.). It looks at how the early Indo-European language created most of the modern languages now used in Europe, Turkey, Iran and all the way to India. The Basque language is an […]