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Educational Annotations

Some of the comics have (more or less) informative annotations on a variety of topics. This is a list of the more educational ones, sorted by subject tags. Some annotations are listed under multiple subjects.

Comics tagged: linguistics

  • 520 - Hydrogen combustion; German language; zeppelin safety
  • 559 - Flammable versus inflammable; English etymology
  • 618 - English as a living language; good new English; bad new English; Shakespeare
  • 820 - Etymology of "xenomorph"
  • 989 - Latin conjugation and place names
  • 1094 - Latin translation
  • 1130 - Lent; lentils; lenses
  • 1246 - Cockney
  • 1349 - Irony; English usage; descriptivism versus prescriptivism; organic food
  • 1351 - Accented characters in English; loan words
  • 1391 - Etymology of "poppet"
  • 1470 - Spanish language; pieces of eight; computer bits; parity
  • 1494 - Naval jargon; how to sail a square-rigged vessel out of port
  • 1537 - Spanish language; translation difficulties
  • 1731 - Etymology of "titbit"; bowdlerisation of language
  • 1740 - English semantics; women's prerogative; physiological sex differences and influence on social custom
  • 1767 - Biscuits; British English; American English; Latin; Italian; German; interconnectedness of languages
  • 1769 - Gender-neutral pronouns; prescriptive grammar; singular "they"
  • 1902 - Shovels versus spades; English usage
  • 1964 - "Man" versus "elf" and other fantasy races
  • 2022 - Assonance
  • 2031 - "Bupkis"; words we understand but never use
  • 2039 - Pronouns; declining pronouns
  • 2055 - "Fortnight"
  • 2107 - "Computer"
  • 2116 - "Software"
  • 2137 - Comparative and superlative
  • 2244 - "Wharf", "pier", and "jetty"
  • 2301 - "Literally"; language drift
  • 2343 - "Fuschia"; "orange"
  • 2370 - "Tinker's cuss"; "tinker's damn"
  • 2382 - "Wolf" in German
  • 2387 - The Rosetta Stone
  • 2392 - "Atom"
  • 2411 - "Zeitgeist" in English and German
  • 2442 - Metaphors involving words nobody uses outside the metaphor
  • 2475 - Gerunds
  • 2519 - "Suffer"
  • 2641 - Rhoticity
  • 2657 - "Scientist"
  • 2690 - "Right whale"
  • 2694 - "E pur si muove"; "punk"; Measure for Measure
  • 2736 - "Petroleum"
  • 2784 - "Magazine"
  • 3026 - Figurative use of "literally"
  • 3138 - Words coined by Shakespeare
  • 3282 - Learning Italian
  • 3304 - Imagery; simile; metaphor; figures of speech
  • 3398 - "hieroglyphs" versus "hieroglyphics"
  • 3400 - Ciphers versus codes
  • 3410 - Capitalisation of alien species names
  • 3431 - Djinn and genies; computer programming; computer languages
  • 3432 - Tzatziki; dips versus sauces
  • 3526 - Biscuits and cookies
  • 3558 - Cannibalism and sophiophagy
  • 3587 - Emojis
  • 3664 - Apostrophes in place names
  • 3772 - Circle of Life lyrics
  • 3786 - "Fortnight" and slang
  • 3851 - "Cupboard" versus "closet" versus "cabinet"
  • 3919 - "Conversation piece"
  • 3944 - Portmanteau words; portmanteau luggage; Oliver Heaviside; complex numbers in electrical engineering; the Heaviside layer
  • 3966 - "Takes the cake"
  • 3982 - Dire wolves
  • 4019 - "Burley" versus "chum"; Jaws
  • 4051 - "Invoke"; alliteration versus assonance
  • 4067 - "Jack of"; "jack" as an adjective
  • 4094 - Etymology and pronunciation of "lich"; usage in fantasy literature
  • 4155 - Plural of "gin and tonic"
  • 4246 - Yuan-ti; pronunciation of unknown words
  • 4336 - "Knock knock" in Latin
  • 4434 - The Italian verb sudare and auxiliary verbs
  • 4670 - "on second thoughts" vs. "on second thought"
  • 4722 - Werewolves
  • 4762 - Plains, and plain
  • 4966 - "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries"
  • 5054 - Cross-linguistic and cross-species onomatopoeia

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