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makingnoiseandhearingthings.com
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| | | | | One of the reallycool things about the internet is thatit's a great medium to observe linguistic innovations. A lot of examples of linguistic play that would have been pretty ephemeral are now safely recorded and shared. (Can you imagine being able to listen to the first examples of Pig Latin? In addition to being cool,... | |
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dialectblog.com
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| | | | | In the previous lesson of our International Phonetic Alphabet Tutorial, we dealt with the symbols used to represent vowel sounds. In this lesson, we will examine consonant symbols. The IPA Co... | |
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www.arrantpedantry.com
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| | | | | In a recent episode of Slate's Lexicon Valley podcast, John McWhorter discussed the history of English personal pronouns. Why don't we use ye or thee and thou anymore? What's the ... | |
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starkeycomics.com
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| | | This image shows the many cousins of the English word "ten". Around the outside are 64 living Indo-European languages and their words for 10. Within are the words for "ten" in historic languages, going back all the way to Proto-Indo-European *dé?m?. The Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language was spoken around 6000 years ago, somewhere on the border [...] | ||
