Has anybody used #Glottolog data?
It is a database of languoids, that is, it contains information on dialects, languages and language families globally, their geographical "ranges", and inter-language relations, and has potential for some pretty cool analyses. Awesome #OpenData for sure. However, I am unsure how it compares to #WALS or #Ethnologue data.
"Agin" = "against" is a feature of colloquial Irish English. Hence the joke "He who is not for us is a Guinness" ["agin us"], and the dialect word "aginner": one who opposes or begrudges something
New post on Werner Herzog's voice, accent, mimics, and related matters:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/werner-herzog-on-his-voice-and-its-mimics/
Since learning the South Jutlandic dialect of Danish from my wife, I've always been aware that – compared to standard Danish – many final syllables are omitted, so they rely much more on tone and length to distinguish words.
I've recently found a verb that is conjugated entirely through tones and lengths. ‘at vende’ – ‘to turn’:
vende – /vɛ̌nː/
vender – /vɛ̂n/ or /vɛn̰/
vendte – /věːn/
vendt – /vêːn/ or /vḛːn/
unrleated but a friend asked how I pronounce the word "poem".
MEMORY UNLOCKED.
I was LIVID with a study workbook in Japan (so 6 to 10 y.o., which was 2nd or 3rd to 5th grade for me).
Fucking thing dinged me for saying "fire" was TWO syllables.
Because it IS!
If "fire" was ONE syllable, it would be "Far", a different fuckign word.
"Fai yer" or "fie err".
I like Mastodon for that: In my timeline, I've just had posts in Welsh, Gaelic, and Esperanto. Hey, I'm missing a bit of Langue d'Oc and Vosges-Welche!
The latter is one of the last (still) living Gallo-Romance dialects: https://musee-pays-welche.alsace/le-pays-welche/ It has been preserved in a valley with only five villages. Imagine to listen to people when Asterix and Obelix talked ...
Fun facts about the word "ourself":
—It's older than "ourselves"
—It can be singular or plural
—It has multiple grammatical roles
—All good dictionaries still list it
—Shakespeare used it *dozens* of times
—You can use it too, if you want
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/we-ourself-can-use-this-pronoun/
État de la traduction de l'app #Dialect en #kabyle.
Weblate : https://hosted.weblate.org/engage/dialect/
Site officiel : https://dialectapp.org/
Grandma used the word “whatsome” a lot. I've never heard anyone else say it. I often wonder where it came from.
Curiously, the Oxford Dictionary defines it as an obsolete #MiddleEnglish word meaning “whatever” that hasn't been used in over 500 years.
“Whatsome” was Grandma's “whatchamacallit”. She could also say “and whatsome” in the sense of “and so on”.
Incidentally, Oxford recognises “whatsomever” as a surviving #dialect word.
Het is echt onzin dat gemeenten niet genoeg geld hebben voor armoedebestrijding of jeugdzorg. Knap dat de PvdA in Emmen dat zo duidelijk maakt. Het sociale profiel is blijkbaar al helemaal af.
Besteden aan de voedselbank of als prijs verloten onder mensen in de schuldsanering om maar wat te noemen, daarmee haal je blijkbaar geen bonuspunten bij de kiezers volgens de PvdA.
https://www.verkiezingsuitslagen.nl/verkiezingen/detail/TK20231122/744087
Ontstrant, astrant of anstrant betekent ‘vrijpostig’ of zelfs wat ‘brutaal’. Waar worden die woorden gebruikt en welke synoniemen bestaan er nog in de dialecten van Nederland? Lees het in de nieuwe aflevering van #uitdestreek! #streektaal #dialect
https://ivdnt.org/actueel/woorden-van-de-week/uit-de-streek/onstrant/
Slipping out a little live mini-album ahead of BCF.
It's PWYW, but all proceeds will go towards replacing the power amp at the Old Nick Theatre that died (though quite gracefully, it must be said) on the night of the gig.
https://gribbles.bandcamp.com/album/gribbles-live-at-the-old-nick-theatre-12-9-24
#electronicmusic #electronica @electronicmusic #lincolnshire #dialect #Gainsborough
I asked the writer, who said the quote was accurate and that my instincts were right: the child's parents were from Donegal! So with her assent I added a phrase to indicate dialect, for readers' benefit, and avoided "[sic]".
Further reading, for the curious, on "be's" and related idioms in Irish English: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2015/03/13/do-be-doing-bes-habitual-aspect-in-irish-english/
and on what Jessica Mitford called the "pedantic, censorious quality" of "[sic]": https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/04/29/the-pedantic-censorious-quality-of-sic/
Edited a research article that quoted a young child saying, "We be'd kind by listening".
I was unsure if this was:
1. a typo for "We'd be kind by listening"
2. variant child speech
3. dialect: it reminded me of Donegal Irish "be's"
If the quote was accurate, and from an adult, I might use "[sic]". But "[sic]" is often used as an editorial sneer, and it would be unduly harsh to apply to a child's utterance. [1/2]
It's time for a linguistics poll:
In English, there is a word for a parent's sister or sister-in-law (or female-presenting sibling/sibling-in-law): aunt.
How do YOU pronounce that word?
Bonus question: where are you from? (answer in the comments, please)
Please boost to extend the responses!
"Scone": rhymes with bone, or with gone? I left a couple of comments. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=65494
I once used the pronunciation of "scone" to illustrate a linguistic isogloss in my essay on Irish English dialect: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/wasn-t-it-herself-told-me-which-bit-of-ireland-would-that-phrase-be-from-1.4434174
In British English, "rooster's crow" is spelled "rorcestershriek."
The scone pronunciation map of Britain
…a recent YouGov study of more than 54,000 Britons finding that 51% say they pronounce the word to rhyme with ‘gone’ but 45% saying they pronounce it to rhyme with ‘bone’.
https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/50339-the-scone-pronunciation-map-of-britain
#YouGov #Poll #Food #Pronunciation #Map #Dialect #English #Language #Linguistics #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #GreatBritain #Britain @linguistics
"McMillan, who last year translated all of Rossini’s The Barber of Seville into Yorkshire for an opera production, is relaxed about the mistake"
