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Joshua McNeillSpotted in a <a href="https://h4.io/tags/CaptainAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CaptainAmerica</a> story in <a href="https://h4.io/tags/TalesofSuspense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TalesofSuspense</a> c1966: "he dived" rather than "he dove" to describe the actions of <a href="https://h4.io/tags/RedSkull" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RedSkull</a>. As far as their use in literature, the latter only became more common in the 1980s (<a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=he+dived%2Che+dove&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=he+dived%2Che+dove&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3</a>). As someone born in the 1980s, "dived" does sound really strange.<a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/morphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#morphology</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Marvel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marvel</a>

Joshua McNeillExcellent song by <a href="https://h4.io/tags/WillHaven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WillHaven</a>, Finest Our, but the title's play on words only works for those who pronounce "our" as [aʊəɹ] rather than [aɹ]. I use the latter even in stressed positions, which my students tell me is weird now, but this album was recorded over 20 years ago, at which time I assume this was not as weird.<a href="https://tidal.com/browse/track/5522648?u" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://tidal.com/browse/track/5522648?u</a><a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/phonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phonetics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/phonology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phonology</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/hardcore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hardcore</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/metal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#metal</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#music</a>

Joshua McNeillSpotted a (exaggerated?) representation of the <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Southernvowelshift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Southernvowelshift</a> in a <a href="https://h4.io/tags/HauntofFear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HauntofFear</a> issue c1950s: "can't" as [keɪnt] rather than [kænt].<a href="https://h4.io/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#horror</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/phonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phonetics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/phonology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#phonology</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/dialectology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dialectology</a>

Stan CareyA brief history (and critique) of English spelling reform that I once wrote for <a href="https://mastodon.world/@HistoryToday" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@HistoryToday</a>: <a href="https://www.historytoday.com/brief-history-english-spelling-reform" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.historytoday.com/brief-history-english-spelling-reform</a> Supplementary notes on the history of English spelling reform: <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/the-history-of-english-spelling-reform/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2016/02/08/the-history-of-english-spelling-reform/</a><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/spelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spelling</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/EnglishUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnglishUsage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a>

Stan Carey"Every" was originally a compound of two words in Old English: æfre (ever) + ælc (each), the former added for emphasis. You'll find "euerich" and the like in Chaucer. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a>

Stan CareyMerriam-Webster has started a slang dictionary, if you've been wondering what on earth "skibidi", "cheugy", or "high-key" means: <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#slang</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/dictionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dictionary</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/neologisms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#neologisms</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/lexicography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lexicography</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a>

Joshua McNeillTIL that <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Kenner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Kenner</a>, <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Louisiana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Louisiana</a> was originally called Cannes Brûlées, meaning burnt sugarcane. The French pronunciation is /kan bɾyle/ whereas Kenner is /kɛn əɹ/. It's hard to say what happened to the adjective as it was anglicized, but the sugarcane was preserved pretty well in there.(Got this from the list of <a href="https://h4.io/tags/colonial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colonial</a> censuses in Zitomersky (1974) that has one for "Cannes Bruslees" in 1722.)<a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#French</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagecontact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagecontact</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/NewOrleans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewOrleans</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/NOLA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NOLA</a>

Joshua McNeillStrange to not have any <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Labov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Labov</a> quotes to share that I find poignant despite being the giant of <a href="https://h4.io/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> and despite how much of his work I've read. He always struck me as a workhorse with a lot of interesting method ideas but not someone terribly concerned with <a href="https://h4.io/tags/socialtheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#socialtheory</a> where one's writing might become more touching. His legacy and influence will undoubtedly persist for a very long time still. <a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagevariation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagevariation</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a>

Joshua McNeill<a href="https://h4.io/tags/StanLee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StanLee</a> decided to <a href="https://h4.io/tags/rhyme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#rhyme</a> "Don" with "One" in this <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Avengers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Avengers</a> issue from 1967. It seems like quite a stretch, but maybe this says something about how close these vowels were for him at that time.<a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Marvel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marvel</a>

Serhii NazarovetsFascinating study on linguistic shifts in Southern <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ukraine</a> 🇺🇦 after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022:- Many rejected the 'language of the aggressor.' - Ukrainian usage surged in public spaces. - Bilingualism (Ukrainian-Russian) is now seen negatively. - Family language habits changed less due to tradition.Read more: 👉 <a href="https://doi.org/10.12797/LV.19.2024.38.21" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.12797/LV.19.2024.38.21</a><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/UkrainianIdentity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UkrainianIdentity</a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sociolinguistics</a>

Joshua McNeill"In our behalf" spotted in a <a href="https://h4.io/tags/Marvel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Marvel</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/comic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comic</a> from the 1960s. This construction -- rather than ON our behalf -- appears to have been the norm before that time, which surprised me, personally (<a href="https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=in+our+behalf%2Con+our+behalf&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=in+our+behalf%2Con+our+behalf&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3</a>).<a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comics</a>

Dianora (Diane Bruce)Out of curiosity, how many of you fine folks would know the word "milch" and what it means (Please no spoilers and no cheating by looking it up until after you have thought about it at least!)<a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://ottawa.place/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a>

Joshua McNeillDoing some late night annotating of data, and one difficulty with interpreting the subject <a href="https://h4.io/tags/pronoun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pronoun</a> "on" in <a href="https://h4.io/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#French</a> is that 1pl (i.e., "we") and 3sg impersonal (i.e., "one") have very similar distributions and are almost always equally coherent semantically. You can switch between them in most cases with almost no change at all in the sentence's interpretation.<a href="https://h4.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/pronouns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pronouns</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/morphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#morphology</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#syntax</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/semantics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#semantics</a> <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a>

DanielThe <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Dutch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dutch</a> word for wood is "hout". It used to be "holt". That change is common in Dutch. Similarly, cold is "koud", old is "oud" and salt is "zout".Long ago, there was a wooded region in the Netherlands. It was aptly named Holt-land. Over time the T dropped from the pronunciation. Because of that, the name didn't undergo the change to "hout". The region eventually came to be dominant in the country.And that is why the Netherlands are called Holland.<a href="https://autistics.life/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a>

DanielThe pronoun "you" used to refer to multiple people only. It was used for singular persons as a sign of respect, and eventually replaced the original singular pronoun "thou" in most varieties of English. Now words like "y'all" have arisen to remove the resulting ambiguity.Amusingly, standard Dutch has gone through this same process and come out the other side.<a href="https://autistics.life/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a>

Stan CareyIf you're interested in nouning and verbing, and especially if they bug you, try this quiz I wrote for Macmillan Dictionary a few years ago: <a href="https://www.macmillandictionary.com/learn/language-quizzes/nounings-and-verbings.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.macmillandictionary.com/learn/language-quizzes/nounings-and-verbings.html</a>Discussion here: <a href="https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/verbing-and-nouning-are-fine-and-heres-a-quiz/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/verbing-and-nouning-are-fine-and-heres-a-quiz/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#grammar</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/verbing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#verbing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/nouning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nouning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/quiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#quiz</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/LanguageHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageHistory</a>

Joshua McNeill<a href="https://lingo.lol/@grvsmth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@grvsmth</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/@maitxinha" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@maitxinha</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@linguistics</a> It wouldn't be hard to quantify for the features that have been studied -- just count how many times the conclusion has been that it's a change from below vs not -- but it would be difficult to generalize to all <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a> from there since <a href="https://h4.io/tags/languagevariation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagevariation</a>/#sociolonguistic studies pretty much never use random sampling. But when the conclusion is the same for feature after feature in community after community, it becomes easier to say the claim is accurate

Lauren Hall-LewAnyone on Mastadon coming to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UKLVC14" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKLVC14</a>? Registration is open! 🎉🎉🎉 <a href="https://uklvc14.ppls.ed.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://uklvc14.ppls.ed.ac.uk/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/variation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#variation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sociolinguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/conference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#conference</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Edinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Edinburgh</a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UKLVC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UKLVC</a>

Andrew AbdalianI guess it’s time for an <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#introduction</a>!I’m a linguistics PhD focusing on <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/LanguageRevitalization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageRevitalization</a>, <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/LanguageChange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageChange</a>, <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/LanguageDocumentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LanguageDocumentation</a>, and <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/SecondLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SecondLanguage</a> teaching. I work with the Tunica Language Working Group on Tunica, an <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/IndigenousLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IndigenousLanguage</a> in Louisiana. I’m also interested in <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/CorpusLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CorpusLinguistics</a>, language and the law, <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/DoubleModals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DoubleModals</a>, and <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Humor</a>. Outside of linguistics, I'm forever honing my trivia skills and editing Wikipedia.

Cerstin Mahlow<a href="https://qoto.org/@true_mxp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@true_mxp</a> OTOH I somehow missed the point when we switched from "I'm sorry I exluded you" to "I'm sorry if you feel excluded." <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languagechange</a>

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