Archive for Regionalisms
For musings by an American linguist now living and teaching in Sussex on the differences between American and British English, an entertaining blog (with equally entertaining comments) is at Separated By a Common Language, written by the entertainingly-pseudonymed Lynneguist. I may pull interesting things from her archives in the future for further examination, but for now, […]
In 2013, the New York Times provided an interactive dialect quiz/map that asked you a bunch of questions about what you call things, and then said where it thought you were from. I’ve seen dialect surveys and maps before, but I hadn’t previously seen one that figures out where you’re from based on your choices. […]
Heard an unintentionally funny line on the radio this morning: "There's only one person who can answer this, and that's y'all." —Car Talk caller, 4 April 2010. Of course, "y'all"...
Recently encountered an annotated transcription of a podcast from 2007 covering a wide variety of Australian slang terms....