Another month means another selection of language and book links, the latest batch including tiny libraries and great secrets, badgers and Moo Fields, jive and wiki. Something for everyone, I hope.
Slim Gaillard’s jive dictionary.
Preserving the Texas German dialect.
The world’s tiniest library.
(Not counting Marc Giai-Miniet’s.)
On slipping a phrase into the language.
Throwing cold water on “ultraconserved words”.
Phonetic analysis of Marge Simpson’s disapproval-sound.
Watching badgers, not inhaling: 10 scandalous euphemisms.
Explaining the Latin jokes in Asterix (h/t LanguageHat).
Indian languages as a primer on historical linguistics.
The Pig Latins of 11 other languages.
Wiki: a word’s journey.
What can we learn from children’s writing?
The role of editors in codifying Standard English.
“Because I say so!” The trouble with Gwynne’s grammar.
Cunning Geo, Moo Field: amazing place names of Orkney and Shetland.
How learning a foreign language reignites the imagination.
N.K.Y.S.A. (Nobody knows your stupid acronym.)
On descriptivism and grammaticality.
Why do we say Yeah, no?
All the headlines from The Simpsons.
“Herein lies the great secret: Thought is made in the mouth.” (A Dada manifesto by Tristan Tzara.)
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