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Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity (phys.org)

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Out of date dictionaries['s pronunciation guides]–with native speakers from UK/USA/Australia (www.youtube.com)

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The etymology of fencing was a trade (aussie.zone)

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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.

Isogloss of European French speaking regions (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Jakylla to c/linguistics

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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

Bird language (vm.tiktok.com)

submitted 2 years ago by BreakNeckJim to c/linguistics

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Very interesting take on a language made of only whistles.

Let's Talk About Singular They. (youtube.com)

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Very interesting history of the singular 'they'.

Prefixing and suffixing in world's languages (www.tumblr.com)

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