Since moving back to Hanoi, I have decided to try to learn the Vietnamese language, which is both fascinating and challenging.I’ve noticed that the Vietnamese have a wonderful way of naming certain animals, so I thought it would be fun to share some examples with you, with a little image of how they literally translate […]
Linguistics
The ABCD Family Tree
I’ve created an infographic showing the relationship between different scripts used in languages across the world.These 57 different scripts are all thought to have ultimately evolved from the hieroglyphs the Egyptians used over 5000 years ago. I have tried to display the relationships between scripts by showing how 4 symbols in Hieroglyphs,evolved into letters used […]
Nine Names for British Bread-Lumps
Bread-lumps of Britain! In the UK, and especially England, we have an incredible variety of names for the humble medium-sized-bread-lump.While roll, bun, and bap are the 3 most common, there are many rarer and weirdly specific words found in different regions. In Coventry or the Wirral Peninsula, they call it a “batch”. In South Yorkshire […]
6 Ways to divide England linguistically
Author Note: This is one of the first images I ever made, I have since remade all of these maps (and many more) with far more accuracy and precision. This still works as a meme, but I am not at all happy with it as an informative map. Check out this website for all my […]