18 English Words That Come From Irish

If you are into word ety­mol­ogy, you’ll like this. Here are 18 Eng­lish Words That Come From Irish.

The Eight Easiest Foreign Languages for English Speakers

This handy arti­cle tells us about the eight eas­i­est for­eign lan­guages for Eng­lish speak­ers to learn. Sur­prise! Ger­man isn’t one of them.

Eight Eas­i­est For­eign Lan­guages for Eng­lish Speakers

English Will Fragment into Separate Dialects

Here’s an arti­cle from Britain’s Tele­graph that rein­forces the idea the Eng­lish lan­guage is frag­ment­ing into sep­a­rate dialects. New forms of Eng­lish are aris­ing that do not sound like tra­di­tional Eng­lish. This is known as “dia­glos­sia.”  The arti­cle gives some exam­ples of what these new forms of Eng­lish sound like. Very inter­est­ing.  Read arti­cle here.
You can also read a short piece I wrote about the sub­ject here.
For another per­spec­tive see this arti­cle about the “de-evolution of Eng­lish.”