Anyone can sort a list by alphabetical order. If you’re reading this, you’re probably pretty familiar with your ABCs. But if you were to ask why the alphabet is arranged in the order it is, the best answer you’re going to get is a shrug. From what historians understand, the order of the alphabet is the way it is because, well, it’s always been that way.
— Read on curiosity.com/topics/why-is-the-alphabet-in-abc-order-no-one-knows-curiosity
Through language, humans bring out the full potentiality hidden in matter, advance the building of bird nests and beaver dams to architecture and engineering, the gathering of nuts to farming, squawks and barks to music, and limited animal perception to the intellectual jewels of modern Western culture… (essay by George Stanciu)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/02/speech-silence-george-stanciu.html
Long but very insightful.
Half the residents in America’s five largest cities speak a language other than English at home. That’s adding strain to urban school districts. Learn more at ImmigrationReform.com
— Read on immigrationreform.com/2018/09/26/foreign-language-speakers-straining-u-s-schools/
no brainer
How to Count Every Language in India – Atlas Obscura
— Read on www.atlasobscura.com/articles/peoples-linguistic-survey-of-india-ganesh-devy
John Barleycorn 