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Separated by a Common Language: the fine/small print
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Ace Linguist: The PIN-PEN Merger
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| | Why are so many Americans rhyming "ten" and "tin"? The origin of this ubiquitous feature in American English.
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World Wide Words: Newsletter: 03 Oct 2015
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| | Issue 916 of the World Wide Words newsletter, dated 03 Oct 2015
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REVIEW: Jesse Sheidlower's The F-Word, 4th edition - Strong Language
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| | Buy the book! Sheidlower, Jesse. The F-Word, 4th edition. Oxford University Press, 2024. 449 pages. US$22.99. Back when I was a teen, c. 1980, some friends and I were cruising the streets of Seaside Heights, New Jersey on an off-season night. With us was a friend-of-a-friend, someone I did not know. He got into a...
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Some of the phonological history of English vowels, illustrated by failed rhymes in English folk songs | The House Carpenter
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| Abbreviations: ModE = Modern English (18th century-present) EModE = Early Modern English (16th-17th centuries) ME = Middle English (12th-15th centuries) OE = Old English (7th-11th centuries) OF = Old French (9th-14th centuries) All of this information is from the amazingly comprehensive book English Pronunciation, 1500-1700 (Volume II) by E. J. Dobson, published in 1968, which...