The replies to this pinned tweet index my threads on language and linguistics—dealing mostly with sinograms, historical phonology, and etymology. And occasionally Pokémon. Languages (focus on East Asia): 🇨🇳🇹🇼🇭🇰🇰🇷🇰🇵🇯🇵🇻🇳 etc.

@GoranSt1965 @colingorrie So he spelled both the noun and verb as "ache" to reflect this presumed Greek origin, and the spellings stuck. So we have this Greek-looking "ch" spelling a very Germanic /k/ due to a complex set of changes and misconceptions.

@colingorrie @GoranSt1965 Yes and almost every single word in which “ch” spells a /k/ sound is borrowed from Greek too: chaos, stomach, chrome, etc. A notable exception is ache, the spelling of which has an interesting history.

You can find more posts about my book and all sorts of other cool stuff over at Bl**sky. Hope to see you there.

So if you want more of the awesome and fun linguistics, Pokémon, East Asian languages, and related content that I've been posting here, head on over to the nicer place. Meanwhile, I'll leave all my old threads up here, you can peruse them through my pinned tweet. Be well! 😘

I’m finally making my move for real. Establishing a new home at Bluesky. I’ll leave old threads up here for at least a while, but won’t actively post here any more. 🦋 @zevhandel.bsky.social

@Vokabre I was confusingly ambiguous, sorry. Over the last few days I’ve retweeted three of my old threads. This is the third and final one on this theme.

And because it's the most philological. 🇰🇵🇰🇷 I've got the flags of the two Koreas here because there is a bit of discussion of differences between North Korean and South Korean names for letters. Anyhoo, without further ado, here's the thread: 3/end

@h7532259683026 @gyankotsu Regulski, Ilona. A Palaeographic Study of Early Writing in Egypt. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 195, Leuven, 2010.

It's a long thread. If you don't have patience to get to the end, you can just watch the music video.