Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 18:31:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> Subject: [WSFA] words that really last. To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/linguists-identify-15000-year-old-ultraconserved-words/2013/05/06/a02e3a14-b427-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html?tid=d_pulse Linguists identify 15,000-year-old "ultraconserved words" = Mae Strelkov was working on this back in the 1970s. =Tamar