TIL the word 'lox' (smoked salmon) is the oldest word in the English language- unchanged in meaning and pronunciation for 8,000 years
TIL the word 'lox' (smoked salmon) is the oldest word in the English language- unchanged in meaning and pronunciation for 8,000 years
The word lox was one of the clues that eventually led linguists to discover who the Proto-Indo-Europeans were, and where they lived.Photograph by Helen Cook / Flickr One of my favorite words is lox,” says Gregory Guy, a professor of linguistics at New York University. There is hardly a more quintess...
it's also yummy
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There’s this great youtoobs channel I watch a lot. It’s this attorney who shows you how to select smoked salmon in the supermarket.
It’s the Lox Picking Lawyer.
fucking got me, good one
I’m proud of that one. Sometimes the stars and my ADHD align.
I heard they had a collab with a youtoobs channel that shows people how to become professional administrative employee, called "staff made here".
Isn't that the same guy who is also part of the yootoobz channel where there's an insanely rich guy who constantly blows his money on bakeries and baked goods, called "Mr. Yeast"?
It's a bit like that youtoobz channel about how to die from electricity I think it's called ElectroTomb.
God damn you down to the fireiest pits of hell.
There's lox to unpick there