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18 Jan 2025
Is "Art" #masculine or #femenine? The grammatical #gender of the word "art" in different #languages
Read more here: mapologies.com/a-r-t/
#map #mapologies #art #grammar #lingusiticmap #languagemap #mapologic
ALT Map of the grammatical gender of art
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11 Jan 2025
"Bookworm" refers to larvae that damage books and avid readers. Other languages use metaphors like reading horse, book friend, book eater, or letter smitten.
mapologies.com/bookworms/
ALT Bookworm in other languages
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6 Jan 2025
But how many lives do cats 😺have? mapologies.com/cats-lives/
#cat #life #map #idiom #myth #language #expression #supestition #belief #mapologies
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2 Jan 2025
This one just got an update this week #bulgaria #romania
More maps:
mapologies.com/europes
#schengen #europe #eu #border #Brexit #românia #freemovement #europeanunion #schengenarea
ALT mapping different aliances in Europe
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1 Jan 2025
Courgette was borrowed from French, that influenced the west,, while zucchini comes from Italian zucchino, became more popular in Central Europe. Interestingly, both terms descend from the Latin cucurbita, gourd. In the East, is the Turkish word kabak.
mapologies.com/fruits
ALT etymology map of courgette or zucchini
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31 Dec 2024
Are you ready for 2025?
mapologies.com/celebrate/
#newyearseve #newyears #newyearsresolutions #nochevieja #nochevieja2025 #newyearseve2025 #silvester #silverster2025
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26 Dec 2024
The word #chickpea comes from Old French *pois chiche* and #Latin *cicer*, also seen in Italian *ceci*, Polish *ciecierzyca*, and Hungarian *csicseri*. #hummus comes from Arabic *حُمُّص*, meaning “chickpea.” #etymology #languages #mapologies #linguistics
mapologies.com/legumes/
ALT etymology map of chickpea (cicer arietinum)
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13 Dec 2024
The term "skyscraper" originates from the words sky and scrape, evoking the image of a #building that reaches or touches the #sky. However, in others, it evolved into the metaphorical "#cloud scratcher," as seen in #German, #Romanian , or #Arabic
mapologies.com/architecture/
ALT Etymology of Skyscraper
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2 Dec 2024
Day 30 of #30DayMapChallenge: The final map: Happy day to Scotland. #MapChallenge mapologies.com/national-name…
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27 Nov 2024
Day 27 of #30DayMapChallenge: micromapping
The small country in Europe is called Shqiptarë, but everybody else says Albania or something similar
#MapChallenge
mapologies.com/national-name…
ALT Etymology map of Albania
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25 Nov 2024
Day 25 of #30DayMapChallenge: Heat
An etymolgy map of the word "Heat"
mapologies.com/weather/
ALT An etymolgy map of the word "Heat"
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24 Nov 2024
Day 24 of #30DayMapChallenge : Only circular shapes An alternative map of United Europe of 18 Circular states. Each circular state has a capital city radiating from Vilnius. Inspired in “Das Neue Europa mit dem dauernden Frieden” 1920 by P. A. Maas
mapologies.com/circular-stat…
ALT map of the circular states of Europe
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22 Nov 2024
Day 22 of #30DayMapChallenge: two colors. Not everything is black and white, just f...
#MapChallenge
mapologies.com/censure/
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19 Nov 2024
Day 19 of #30DayMapChallenge #MapChallenge: Typography.
There is likely no other symbol that varies in form as much as the question mark does across different languages.
mapologies.com/symbols/
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