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I Survived the Great Vowel Shift

Description: A group for linguists, armchair linguists, would-be linguists, budding linguists, linguists-in-training, linguistic anthropologists, and/or anybody interested in the scientific study of languages. If Noam Chomsky is your hero... you can join, too. :)

Most recent members: nnicole, jmthorpe, frogman54, Pyrogenesis, stephanie1588, BillJacobson, EvilTacox4, sorchah, teddym, dutts, vjohanna, doriana, bjza, eserafina42, leengyselinck, callen610, quettandil, TallyDi, Child_of_Light, lukrezia, frindley, Cerisier, tbaltazar, kuternoga, frankcain, redhotrabbit, Dessimetrics, jjmcgaffey, Artemis26, MadameC631 total

Member library: 443,973 books

Most commonly shared books (weighted): The language instinct by Steven Pinker (103), A course in phonetics by Peter Ladefoged (47), The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax, and other irreverent… by Geoffrey K. Pullum (36), The hobbit, or, There and back again by J.R.R. Tolkien (163), The World's major languages (36), The Odyssey by Homer (134), The name of the rose by Umberto Eco (119), Beowulf : a new verse translation by Anonymous (111), Guns, Germs, and Steel: the fates of human societies by Jared Diamond (117), The Cambridge encyclopedia of language by David Crystal (50)

Created: Jul 26, 2006 by rikker; Language: English

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What is the great vowel shift? 18nnicole, Today 12:34pmignore
The K-word (discussion of ethnic slur) 17valleymom, Yesterday 3:04pmignore
book recs for a newb 15jjmcgaffey, Sunday 2:47amignore
Why do Canadians say "eh" at the end of their sentences? 26eserafina42, April 27ignore
How to dig deeper? 4ShiraC, March 22ignore
Is it important to teach the phoenetic alphabet? 18vpfluke, March 15ignore
awesome 28ambushedbyasnail, March 14ignore
Farther and further 12PaulFoley, March 7ignore
Is English Grammar Based on Latin Grammar and is that Bad? 9vpfluke, March 3ignore
Name that language! 19wrijud, February 23ignore
The Language of Dreams 33wikkywikky, February 22ignore
Dormant: Difference between a brogue and a burr? 13Celebrimbor, February 4ignore
Dormant: Help understanding the difference btw Saxon, Norman, Celtic, Gallic, English 10chamekke, January 24ignore
Dormant: Suggestions for a lay reader 17icemuff, January 23ignore
Dormant: Historical Linguistics books 7shehasathree, January 16ignore
Dormant: Use of "we" in Victorian era 6tangerinealert, January 16ignore
Dormant: I Survived the Great Vowel Shift... 5MyopicBookworm, November 2007ignore
Dormant: Linguistics humor 15circeus, October 2007ignore
Dormant: Etymologists, Scots, Good Guessers: HELP! 11MMcM, September 2007ignore
Dormant: Big cats and language intersect again 4circeus, September 2007ignore
Dormant: Ohrverm and the names of other phemomena 5circeus, August 2007ignore
Dormant: Maluku/Hawai'ian language link 3manguni, July 2007ignore
Dormant: so fun 18MMcM, July 2007ignore
Dormant: Convergent languages 16sabreader, May 2007ignore
Dormant: Diphthong Quest 4ArtDecade, April 2007ignore
Dormant: Poetic language 7vpfluke, April 2007ignore
Dormant: I Survived the Great Vowel Shift Message Board 61Delirium9, April 2007ignore
Dormant: Question re: [A Course in Phonetics] by [[Peter Ladefoged]] 3Watty, March 2007ignore
 

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