NVFAQ* on Language Etc.
(*Not Very Frequently Asked Questions)
Lee Hartman, <lhartman [at] siu [dot] edu>

Anthroponomy (names of people) John Smith et al.:  Anomalies in the distribution of the most frequent given names and surnames in the U.S. Truly Wisconsin surnames:  Some 200 family names that are more numerous in Wisconsin than in any other state Corpus studies Summer pulls ahead of winter in eight languages! Esperanto Kiel Esperanto povas komprenebligi rubgoldbergilojn (How Esperanto can elucidate Rube Goldberg machines) Esperantaj korelativoj grandumigitaj (Esperanto correlatives expanded)

History History of A Sealing Voyage (1830, Falkland Islands, Daniel W. Lamb) Why x?  (Origins of the use of x in algebra) Sound change Phono:  This application for testing models of regular historical sound change, bundled with a model for Spanish, is now available for beta-testing.  Click here to begin downloading it. "Modeling Phonological Change" (2003) "Phono (Version 4.0):  Software for Modeling Regular Historical Sound Change" (2003)   Spanish Time expressions and the preterit/imperfect choice in Spanish Que Sera Sera:  The English Roots of a Pseudo-Spanish Proverb