We will never find out the origin of the word `busy.’ So he gave me $10,000,” Liberman said. ‘Busy’ is derived from the Old English word ‘bysig.’ Other Germanic languages have similar sounding words ...

Trace lets users of touch-capacitance keypads place a finger on the first letter of any word, and then trace their finger across the other letters in one motion.

Tracing languages back to their common ancestors through the statistics of sound shifts Date: February 19, 2015 Source: Santa Fe Institute Summary: A statistical technique that sorts out when ...