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The 3 Theories of Language Origin: Bow-Wow, Pooh-Pooh, and Ding-Dong

No, really. That’s what the theories are actually called. I was researching onomatopoeias and accidentally stumbled upon the bow-wow theory of language origin. I thought that name was pretty funny, and then I glanced at the footnotes, which referenced two Read more…