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The US Southern drawl is disappearing

Younger speakers are no longer pronouncing “prize” as “prahz”: https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/southeast/are-southern-accents-fading-away-with-time-one-study-says-yes/#:~:text=The%20University%20of%20Georgia%20said,%27t%2C%E2%80%9D%20Renwick%20said.

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A new ancient Indo-European language

At the site where Hittite was discovered, archeologists have discovered another ancient Indo-European language, which remains largely undeciphered. https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/new-indo-european-language-discovered/

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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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