Mercury- the element.? what family does it belong to? origin of the name? cost? discovered by? when? any interesting facts??? need info now for report!!! thanx!!!
Yet even in its spoken form, English is weird. Itâs weird in ways that are easy to miss, especially since Anglophones in the United States and Britain are not exactly rabid to learn other languages. But our monolingual tendency leaves us like the proverbial fish not knowing that it is wet.
English is one of the most commonly spoken languages in the world. Why is it then that two native speakers can carry on a conversation without having a clue what the other is saying? The answer: slang. Or jargon, lingo, patois, colloquialisms, what-have-you, etc.