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Sayar Tyler :fediverse:

Despite being an American I’ve always pronounced Baptist as [ˈbæp̚.tɪst] (that’s voiceless unaspirated [t] not [tʰ]) but recently I’ve heard family members (especially those with Southern roots) pronounce it as [ˈbæːb.ⁿdɪst]. After listening to other Southern preachers pronounce it in the second way, I’ve come to conclude that this must be a very Southern American form of pronouncing it that has migrated to the North through families and churches.
#linguistics #phonetics #dialectology #baptist

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Head·word /ˈhedˌwɜː(ɹ)d/ n.

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/

#linguistics#dialect#dialects
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Joshua McNeill

To "throw a rock in a haystack". This is a new #saying for me, and I can't find any references to it in Google books or on the web in general. #Crawford is from #Omaha, so maybe it's a saying in #Nebraska considering the state's #agriculture activities. It implies to me that one is making a commotion to get whatever it is one wants to come out and talk.

youtu.be/0at0kzeiPKA

YouTubeTerence Crawford on how he organised Eminem to walk him to the ring 🤩By Sky Sports Boxing
#linguistics#semantics#languagevariation
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Anatol Stefanowitsch

I've recently noticed a pronunciation in American English of auxiliaries/modals ending in [d] with a cliticized negative particle, where the [d] is dropped and the negative particle is pronounced with a schwa-like sound – so, for example, _couldn't_ is pronounced /'kʊnət/, _didn't_ is pronounced /'dɪnət/, and so on. I'm wondering whether this is a new thing or whether I've just never noticed it (it seems to be rare). Anybody familiar with AmE #dialectology know more about this? @linguistics

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Furensic Linguist

In case you were wondering, about me and cats: well, I have combined my love of cats and linguistics in my upcoming publication: "Purrieties of Language: How We Talk about Cats Online", which is due out at the end of February. It's available for preorder here: cambridge.org/at/academic/subj 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

bookcover with pawprints across the cover. The title is "Purrieties of Language. How We Talk about Cats Online". The author is Edith Podhovnik
#cats#linguistics#sociolinguistics
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