Links tagged with “english”
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Amia Srinivasan · He, She, One, They, Ho, Hus, Hum, Ita: How Should I Refer to You? · LRB 2 July 2020
I had no idea there had been quite so many attempts to come up with gender-neutral pronouns for quite so long.
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The Linguistic Evolution of ‘Like’ - The Atlantic
On the recent uses of “like” in English. More interesting than I expected and, thankfully, not at all condescending.
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L-vocalization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A couple of times I’ve tried to find the term for this (pronouncing an ‘l’ in a word a bit more like ‘w’), and failed. Now I’ve got it.
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The Eggcorn Database
“This site is devoted to collecting the kind of unusual English spellings that have come to be called eggcorns.” Great reading. (via @joroach)
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(326) Pushpendra Mohta’s answer to India: What are some English phrases and terms commonly heard in India but rarely used elsewhere? - Quora
I love this. To my eyes it reads entirely like language from science fiction. Brilliant. (via Kottke)
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Analyst Equity: Mid-Atlantic reading on the English
I like the summary of American/English character differences (via ObLinks).
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IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive
Another archive of people from around the world speaking texts with their different accents.
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Speech Accent Archive
Hear people from different parts of the world recite the same paragraph. Fascinating.
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Pepys’ Diary: Thursday 27 November 1662
“But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.” Nice to know we’ve progressed in 343 years. Er…