Yep. Shark Week starts tonight on the Discovery Channel.
And if you think I’m going to miss it, you don’t know me too well :).
So my contribution for Shark Week this year is this wonderful paper on the possible etymology of the English word “shark.”
So is shark derived from a Mayan loan word?
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Fascinating paper. And English is a fascinating language. A good read is “The Adventure of English; the Biography of a Language” by Melvyn Bragg.