Is Cereal Soup?

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Great video about English spellings:    • The English Language Makes No Sense!  

soup etymology: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soup

reduplication:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_va...

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~krussll/...

https://solongasitswords.wordpress.co...

reduplication poem “After the Funeral”: http://www.boulevardmagazine.org/Coll...

retronyms: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/mag...

morse code translator: http://morsecode.scphillips.com/jtran...

dog’s bollocks punctuation:

http://pittmanlettersproject.com/2013...

http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia...

emoticon history: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon...

overwhelmed tweet:   / 535424574880768000  

USA’s Declaration of Independence [image]: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia...

Declaration of Independence punctuation analysis: http://archive.org/stream/punctuateit...

Verbal nouns: http://www.grammar-monster.com/glossa...

Steven Wright: http://www.avclub.com/article/steven-...

rebracketing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebracke...

unpaired words:

http://www.worldwidewords.org/article...

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scientific idioms:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science...

http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/ho...

George Steiner book: http://goo.gl/pSbUlp

emily dickinson quote: http://www.edickinson.org/editions/1/...

see Joyce Carol Oates' quote about inventing symbols here: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/30/opi...

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