Right Angle turns, by one of my father’s old students.
Via Máire.
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Extreme Scots
Via Agus Araile, where Wes commented:
Background: The Shetland accent is not just an accent. It is a separate and distinct sub-dialect of Scots English. It contains many words, and even grammar characteristics, from the extinct Scandinavian language called Norn, which was a variety of Norse spoken in the Shetlands and Orkneys before the islands were pawned to Scotland. The last speaker of Norn was said to have died in the 1850s. On top of the already diverse Scots dialect, the Norn influence places the Shetland dialect a few steps away from the Queen’s English.
The origins of the Indo-Europeans
Gàidhlig agus Gaeilge
Dialects
Alternate Historical Linguistics
Poul Anderson’s classic Uncleftish Beholding is on the web!
St. Patrick’s Breastplate
The opening hymn today in church was St. Patrick’s Breastplace. The English translation and the current tune are quite modern, but the Gaelic words were ancient in colgaffneyis time, originally in Old Irish. Continue reading
Why care about minority languages?
See Monastic Musings, which references Enduring Voices: Documenting the Planet’s Endangered Languages.
“Seduced by a couple of bottles of Carlings Black Label beer”
….How my father got started in the study of American dialects, from his 1979 autobiographical statement, “Linguistics through the Kitchen Door”, in First Person Singular: Papers from the Conference on an Oral Archive for the History of American Linguistics (First paper after the introduction).
The paper begins:
From my point of view, the plan for an informal history of linguistics is the brain child of Bill Austin, begot in the informal gourmet club composed of himself, Bill Card, Virginia [McDavid] and me. At irregular intervals during his years at IIT we would meet for a distinguished meal, and the conversation regularly turned to our experiences as linguists, and with other linguists.
I remember this “gourmet club” well, and was privileged to attend some of its sessions, where I learned a lot about both linguistics and food.
BTW, I have no idea why the proofreading of First Person Singular is so bad.
Article about my Mother
…On page 3 of http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dsna/DSNANFall02.pdf
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 