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