The coconut, and the curious origins of the word in English – derived from the name for an Iberian ghost-monster that ate disobedient children
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World Emoji Day: where the word emoji comes from and the first place they were used regularly
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In John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost about the fall of man, the apple gets explicitly named. Photo: Getty Images
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Lisa Lim has worked in Singapore, Britain, Amsterdam and Sri Lanka, and until June 2018 was Associate Professor and Head of the School of English at the University of Hong Kong, where she still holds an Honorary position. She now is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. She is co-editor of the journal Language Ecology, founder of the website linguisticminorities.hk, and co-author of Languages in Contact (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
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An image from a march during National Sorry Day 2007, which marked 10 years since the release of the Australia’s “Bringing Them Home” report. Photo: Fairfax Media via Getty Images
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Lisa Lim has worked in Singapore, Britain, Amsterdam and Sri Lanka, and until June 2018 was Associate Professor and Head of the School of English at the University of Hong Kong, where she still holds an Honorary position. She now is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. She is co-editor of the journal Language Ecology, founder of the website linguisticminorities.hk, and co-author of Languages in Contact (Cambridge University Press, 2016).