Skeptophilia
Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week
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regional accents
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Thursday, November 28, 2024
Accents and accuracy
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When I was in eighth grade, a movie aired called The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman . We were encouraged by our English teacher to watc...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
The ship sails
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As a linguist, one of the things you have to get used to is that languages change. The denial of this basic fact is at the heart of the argu...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Accent contagion
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One of the features of linguistics I find the most interesting is regional accents. Americans are usually aware of this phenomenon apropos o...
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