Dialect Blog @dialectblog

Dialect Blog is a site for actors, linguists and enthusiasts about the dialects and accents of the English Language. dialectblog.com Joined February 2011

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Dialect Blog @dialectblog

9 years ago

Blink-182's "All the Small Things" seems to feature good examples California pre-velar KIT-tensing (ie "things" = θiŋz)

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Warren Maguire @warren_maguire

9 years ago

This week in #Tyrone, I've recorded farmers referring to a flail for corn as 'flail', 'frail' and 'Chriskian Brothers'. #TyroneDialect

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Linguistic Society of America @LingSocAm

9 years ago

What's the point of the International Phonetic Alphabet? Geoff Pullum in @chronicle: chronicle.com/blogs/linguafr…

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Alexandra D'Arcy @LangMaverick

9 years ago

A beautiful and important resource: The Dialect Atlas of Newfoundland and Labrador. dialectatlas.mun.ca @MemorialU

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Dialect Blog @dialectblog

9 years ago

Was startled by use of "plastered" (drunk) on Downton Abbey but seem this dates to 1912 etymonline.com/index.php?term… etymonline.com/index.php?term…

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Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her), @[email protected] @dialect

9 years ago

"Mommy, are you /staʃ/?" "Am I what?" "Mommy, are you /mɛʋɪkɪn/?" "Oh! Yes I am. Are you American?" "No, I'm /staʃ/." #age2

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Erik Hansson 🇸🇪🇪🇺🇩🇪 @erik_hansson

9 years ago

#Cornish #language could fade into obscurity after funding cut bit.ly/1FcJbVq #Kernewek

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Rosetta Stone @rosettastone

9 years ago

#Infographic: If all the #languages in the world were proportionally represented by 100 people at a party

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Jonathon Owen @ArrantPedantry

9 years ago

Linguists are often accused of believing that anything goes. I try to explain what they really believe and why: arrantpedantry.com/2015/03/04/why…

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Linguistics Guru @LinguisticsGuru

9 years ago

Free Urdu Phrasebook goo.gl/AQLzFU

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The OED @OED

9 years ago

In case you missed it: OED Word of the Day: oppugn, v. To attack or oppose with words, action, influence, etc. oxford.ly/1zX78wo

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Dialect Blog @dialectblog

9 years ago

@Stoller_System @accentvoiceguy PS I'm realizing "non-coronal" is a bad descriptor as coronality doesn't define English /r/ (hi, bunched r!)

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Dialect Blog @dialectblog

9 years ago

@Stoller_System @accentvoiceguy [2/2] is a pretty good example: goo.gl/cs5di1, at least for younger speakers, although it varies

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Dialect Blog @dialectblog

9 years ago

@Stoller_System @accentvoiceguy [1/2] Sorry, just saw this now! I think this RTE report on Limerick gangs ...

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Dialect Blog @dialectblog

9 years ago

K. Lamar uses AAE's continuative "steady" in "Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" ("steady being distracted"="continue being distracted")

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Dialect Blog @dialectblog

9 years ago

@Stoller_System [2/2] Makes some sense since /r/ is oft. velarized in Ireland, so it's a matter of weakening/dropping the coronal component

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Dialect Blog @dialectblog

9 years ago

@Stoller_System [1/2] A lot of what sounds to me like ɰ (Hickey also mentions ʁ in some areas)

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The Fruehwald @JoFrhwld

9 years ago

Google apparently has Canadian Raising.

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Language Log @LanguageLog

9 years ago

Why definiteness is decreasing, part 3: Ten days ago, I documented a striking 20th-century decrease in the fre... bit.ly/1CCI7sO

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Lynne Murphy @lynneguist

12 years ago

And the SbaCL UK-to-US Word of the Year is...'kettling'! Read about it here …paratedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2011/12/2011-u… Thanks to @Fritinancy, who nominated it!