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Category Archives: Uncategorized
Early medieval English burial contains 7th century woman’s necklace giving us picture of life among the first English speakers.
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Is “accent loss” a good thing or a bad thing?
Or is it even possible? The answer is complicated: https://theconversation.com/do-accents-disappear-192548?fbclid=IwAR3EDIgIcS_eyd2AgoFV9azJx25lKmW_x-UsUdSGq0vnSiMSIycZTwnmNGM
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Has “ma’am” become a politically incorrect term?
And what about “sir”? https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/12/us/maam-sir-polarizing-words-cec
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Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is “gaslighting.” Have you seen the movie?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year
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Are you in goblin mode? Oxford University Press Dictionary word of the year 2022
https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/
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Babbling at your baby: is “parentese” a language universal?
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/parentese-is-truly-a-lingua-franca-finds-global-study/articleshow/93098906.cms
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New Oxford Dictionary of African American English: crowd sourced lexicography
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Legal corpus linguistics
Judges and lawyers are making use of linguistic corpora in court cases, but it’s not clear that they know how to use them correctly: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/7/23153218/legal-corpus-linguistics-mask-mandate-judges
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Another defense of “like”
Here is a thoughtful article about “like”: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/may/15/why-do-people-like-say-like-so-much-in-praise-of-an-underappreciated-word?CMP=share_btn_link
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Hesitation markers and fillers
This article makes the — pretty obvious — point that hesitation markers and “fillers” serve an important conversational purpose: Filler Words and Floor Holders: The Sounds Our Thoughts Make
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