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Topics messages Last message Excited for vs. about 16 CliffordDorset , Tuesday 9:15am
Flying a kite 34 PhaedraB , August 11
Earth or the Earth 11 pokarekareana , July 27
Drownding: Why the extra d? 11 keristars , July 21
Why do Canadians say "eh" at the end of their sentences? 80 erilarlo , July 19
Pet peeve phrases II 41 erilarlo , July 19
Words/phrases we love, because, well, they feel so good rolling off the tongue 94 guido47 , July 17
Me, myself 8 msladylib , July 16
Pet peeve phrases 565 jjmcgaffey , July 1
Where do the prescript/descript wings stand on spelling? 35 midikiman , July 1
McWhorter's "The Story of Human Language" 9 MJC1946 , June 27
Which version of BDB is most useful? 2 MarthaJeanne , June 25
Verbalising nouns 29 nickphilosophos , June 24
Tracing the Rise of the Ubiquitous "Yes!" and the Rudely Pumped Fist 18 ed.pendragon , June 13
The Language of Dreams 42 VivienneR , May 30
"As for me" 14 Naren559 , May 21
nauseous, momentarily, quote 52 Thrin , May 17
Let's Get Our Priorities Straight 14 pinkozcat , May 8
The K-word (discussion of ethnic slur) 18 keigu , May 1
Use of "we" in Victorian era 7 keigu , May 1
question re: swearing in France 1889-1890 36 overthemoon , April 23
International Phonetic Alphabet for 'my' 2 MMcM , March 2
Introductory texts in different languages, universities 6 Petroglyph , February 24
"As" vs "Like" 60 Naren559 , February 22
Hanged or Hung-- How would you answer this query? 37 Noisy , February 5
Is English Grammar Based on Latin Grammar and is that Bad? 32 rolandperkins , February 1
language contact and historical analogies 2 erilarlo , January 30
Visualizing words. 12 CliffordDorset , January 27
A challenge to authors! 31 suitable1 , January 17
Languages group 48 ambushedbyasnail , January 15
Farther and further 18 erilarlo , January 13
Sites for Sore Eyes 61 UtopianPessimist , December 2009
"bored of... " 24 atiara , December 2009
Future Watching 6 CliffordDorset , October 2009
Here's another. 35 MyopicBookworm , September 2009
Mrs Yifnif 17 mene , September 2009
The Great Vowel Shift--Now a movie, opening in a theatre near you 7 CliffordDorset , September 2009
Here we go, another grammar question. 32 jimroberts , August 2009
Hesitant...The happiest days of my life were those studying linguistics; don't understand focus on p 34 grammargoddess , August 2009
How does a k turn into an s? 5 nhlsecord , August 2009
New One On Me 26 msladylib , August 2009
Women, fire, and dangerous things 7 sharder , August 2009
A joke. 3 msladylib , August 2009
Hyphenated Words 17 alarob , July 2009
versing 9 Watty , July 2009
Favourite Theoretical Field? 10 WillSteed , June 2009
Estuary English 18 CliffordDorset , June 2009
Words we hate because, well, they AREN'T WORDS! 97 alarob , May 2009
Need a word. 38 thorold , May 2009
Historical Linguistics books 19 haidiw , April 2009
An impossible puzzle. 7 monarchi , March 2009
When newcomers to a language/region "choose" whether or not to assimilate 75 timjones , March 2009
à Kempis 10 MyopicBookworm , March 2009
grammar question 5 tangerinealert , March 2009
Resolve this Please? 23 CliffordDorset , March 2009
Sometimes y and w 75 BarkingMatt , March 2009
The Death of Ancient Egyptian 10 Tamaal , March 2009
What is the great vowel shift? 34 jimroberts , February 2009
I Survived the Great Vowel Shift... 8 bonniebooks , February 2009
"off of" 11 MyopicBookworm , January 2009
Have versus Have Got 34 haidiw , January 2009
A vocab question. 4 Fogies , December 2008
The Way Rs are Written 33 erilarlo , November 2008
book recs for a newb 17 Larxol , November 2008
Regional American vowels...and weird shifts 15 Naren559 , November 2008
Help understanding the difference btw Saxon, Norman, Celtic, Gallic, English 17 Rood , November 2008
awesome 36 MrAndrew , October 2008
Help in translation 2 MMcM , September 2008
Convergent languages 18 vpfluke , September 2008
Difference between a brogue and a burr? 14 erilarlo , September 2008
I Survived the Great Vowel Shift Message Board 64 vpfluke , September 2008
Grammar Questions 11 MMcM , September 2008
On the idea/word unique 12 tomcatMurr , September 2008
"this" shifting to "dish" 9 WillSteed , September 2008
Post-grad linguistics courses - where are you studying? where would you like to study? 6 WillSteed , August 2008
Myanmar 7 twomoredays , June 2008
How to dig deeper? 4 ShiraC , March 2008
Is it important to teach the phoenetic alphabet? 18 vpfluke , March 2008
Name that language! 19 wrijud , February 2008
Suggestions for a lay reader 17 icemuff , January 2008
Linguistics humor 15 circeus , October 2007
Etymologists, Scots, Good Guessers: HELP! 11 MMcM , September 2007
Big cats and language intersect again 4 circeus , September 2007
Ohrverm and the names of other phemomena 5 circeus , August 2007
Maluku/Hawai'ian language link 3 manguni , July 2007
so fun 18 MMcM , July 2007
Diphthong Quest 4 ArtDecade , April 2007
Poetic language 7 vpfluke , April 2007
Question re: [A Course in Phonetics] by [[Peter Ladefoged]] 3 Watty , March 2007
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