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ARROWROOT.

we were listening to the radio this evening and a woman was being interviewed about a doughnut recipe that involved arrowroot. the interviewer asked jovially "so is it the root of the arrow, then?" and they had a good laugh; i, of course, headed for the dictionary. the american heritage dictionary had a particularly good "word history" sidebar, which i w... (3 天前)

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DOWNTON ANACHRONISMS.

my wife and i are as hooked on downton abbey as everyone else (in fact, we just got the dvds of the first two seasons so we can see the original u.k. versions and watch them whenever we want), so i've been interested to see the recent spate of investigations into the language used. ben zimmer has a post at visual thesaurus listing "lines that seem a bit ... (4 天前)

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THE DAWN OF RECORDED SOUND IN AMERICA.

the smithsonian has hundreds of the earliest audio recordings ever made, but they have been considered unplayable and nobody knew what was on them. recently, the library of congress and lawrence berkeley national laboratory collaborated to make optical scanners capable of recording the patterns, and some of the results are becoming available. you can get... (6 天前)

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RUSSIAN BAWDY.

occasional commenter (and gracious hostess) dameragnel has sent me a couple of her favorite off-color russian expressions; i share them here, along with her remark: "i would love to know if others have heard these and would very much enjoy their comments and additions to the list." (as they say on Википедия: Внимание! Ненорматив... (7 天前)

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DOUBLE MODALS.

one of my favorite nonstandard bits of english is the double modal, as exemplified by sentences like "you might should do that." they are a peripheral part of my dialect thanks to my ozark ancestors, and while i don't use them on a daily basis, i delight in tossing them into the mix once in a while; they give me that warm down-home feeling. a few years a... (8 天前)

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ENOT.

my wife and i watched a pbs show about raccoons yesterday and were astonishedi had no idea how ubiquitous, resourceful, and rapidly evolving they are, and it seems clear that they'll wind up taking over the world from us and probably running it better. at any rate, i was pleased that i remembered the russian word for them, енот [enot, pronounced some... (9 天前)

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CLICKS IN ENGLISH.

melissa wright, a linguist at birmingham city university, specializes in "the relationship between the phonetic-linguistic details of everyday talk and the interactional structures within which (and through which) that talk is produced"; at her home page, she says of her pd thesis: "i examined the phonetic and interactional organisation of naturally-occu... (10 天前)

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