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Word of the day: House

July 12, 2008 – 12:59 pm

Wood, it is either boring, or a little naughty… and you are unlikely to ever need to know it, unless you are a builder. And if you were, you might use it to build a house; today’s word is “House”. The first word was “Sun“, a basic word and many languages less than 4 characters. […]

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Word of the day: Water

July 11, 2008 – 12:57 am

You might wonder why the word of the day is so simple, it is an attempt to build an understanding of other languages. I figure that with a word a day, I might understand a dozen different words in written form… The first word was “Sun“, a basic word and many languages less than 4 […]

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Word of the day: Beer

July 10, 2008 – 8:43 am

You might wonder why the word of the day is so simple, it is an attempt to build an understanding of other languages. I figure that with a word a day, I might understand a dozen different words in written form… Yesterdays word was “Sun“, a basic word and many languages less than 4 characters.
Today’s […]

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Word of the day: Sun

July 9, 2008 – 4:17 pm

You might wonder why the word of the day is so simple, it is an attempt to build an understanding of other languages:

Language

Word

Sun

Arabic

العربيه

الشمس

Chinese (Simplified)

中文（简体）

太阳

Dutch

Nederlands

zon

French

Français

soleil

German

Deutsch

sonne

Hebrew

עברית

‮שמש

Hindi

हिन्दी

सूरज

Japanese

日本語

太陽

Russian

Русский

солнце

Spanish

Español

sol

Swahili

Kiswahili

jua

Compiling this list, I used Answers.com translations, Google translate and the Kamusi project.
I figure that with a word a day, I might understand a dozen different words in written form. It […]

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