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Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity (phys.org)
submitted 10 months ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/linguistics@sh.itjust.works
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Out of date dictionaries['s pronunciation guides]–with native speakers from UK/USA/Australia (www.youtube.com)
submitted 11 months ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/linguistics@sh.itjust.works
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The etymology of fencing was a trade (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by Zagorath@aussie.zone to c/linguistics@sh.itjust.works
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An interesting bit of etymology that I learnt recently.

The English word "fencing" (as in sword fighting) comes from English "defence", from Old French "defens", from Latin "defendere", meaning "to ward off, defend".

The French word for fencing is "escrime". The Italian and Spanish words are also close cognates with French. "Escrime" comes from Old French "escremir", from Frankish "*skirmjan".

That means English, a Germanic language, gets its word from Latin, a Romance language.

And the Romance languages of French, Spanish, and Italian get their word from Frankish, a Germanic language.

Essentially, the Romance and Germanic language families did a trade.

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Isogloss of European French speaking regions (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Jakylla@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics@sh.itjust.works
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This map shows the different French accents across western Europe (France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Swiss, and smaller countries/city states)

Similar color means similar accents, different colors means more distinct dialects

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Bird language (vm.tiktok.com)
submitted 1 year ago by BreakNeckJim@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics@sh.itjust.works
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Very interesting take on a language made of only whistles.

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Let's Talk About Singular They. (youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by BreakNeckJim@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics@sh.itjust.works
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Very interesting history of the singular 'they'.

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Prefixing and suffixing in world's languages (www.tumblr.com)
submitted 1 year ago by DesGrieux@sh.itjust.works to c/linguistics@sh.itjust.works
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