Comrade Duch died yesterday, on 2 September. He ran the notorious Tuol Sleng prison during the genocidal reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and…
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Update: The Korean-language website has been launched at pyogi.kkeutsori.com I have known for a long time that I needed a website of my own in…
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Ricardo Mbarkho, born in Beirut in 1974, is a Lebanese visual artist working in digital images and video whose unusual name immediately leapt to the…
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“Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer / Had a very shiny nose” The story of the Rudolph who was mocked by his fellow reindeer for his glowing red nose…
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There is a myth that the word ‘kangaroo’ derives from the reply that Aboriginal Australians gave meaning “I don’t understand” when the British asked for the…
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Gimbap (김밥, in the Revised Romanization of Korean) or kimbap (in McCune–Reischauer romanization) is a Korean dish made of rice and other ingredients rolled up in…
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The Portuguese capital Lisbon (pronounced [ˈlɪz.bən] in English), famous for the trams climbing up and down its hills, is known as Lissabon [ˈlɪ.sa.bɔn, ––ˈ–] in German…
Leave a CommentThe seismic political scandal surrounding South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye and her friend Choi Soon-sil has inspired a remarkable piece of bilingual wordplay in the…
Leave a CommentI have added a new section on the website with the English translation of the Loanword Transcription Rules (외래어 표기법 外來語表記法 Oeraeeo Pyogibeop), the official…
Leave a CommentI have decided to stake out a tiny corner of the internet as a repository for my language-related musings in the English language that don’t…
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