JdeBP<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@FourT4" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>FourT4</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@ancientsounds" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ancientsounds</span></a></span> </p><p>It depends from what accent one is using, but yes definitely there are some U.K. accents where there's a difference, ranging in the vowel from /əʊ/ through /ə/ to even /əʊɜ/.</p><p>Interestingly, <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Wiktionary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Wiktionary</span></a>'s voice sample gives the third one for RP "thrown" making it 2 syllables, but doesn't actually transcribe it as such. I'm sure that Geoff Lindsey would have a field day. (-:</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/phonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phonetics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EnglishPhonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishPhonetics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EnglishLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishLinguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GeoffLindsey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeoffLindsey</span></a></p>
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wzhkevin<p>Do you pronounce “Ms” and “Miss” differently?</p><p>Would be cool if you replied to say where you’re from and what variety of English you speak too. </p><p><a href="https://digipres.club/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://digipres.club/tags/englishlinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>englishlinguistics</span></a></p>
Martin Schäfer<p>Some hard facts from the British National Corpus <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/BNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BNC</span></a> : of the 44 hits for "oddness", 16 come from the same source, which turns out to be D. A. Cruse's "Lexical Semantics" textbook from 1986. Which makes me wonder, not for the first time, whether it has been a good idea to include linguistic texts in the BNC sampling :)<br><a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/EnglishLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishLinguistics</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/corpora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corpora</span></a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/metaLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>metaLinguistics</span></a></p>
(((Benjamin Donguk Lukoff)))<p>I’ve been reading a really interesting <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> thread where the issue came up of whether “-ette” is a universally belittling suffix (in <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>English</span></a>), and it made me wonder if there are folks on here who are specifically interested in <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/EnglishLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishLanguage</span></a>, <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/EnglishLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishLinguistics</span></a>, and <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/EnglishUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishUsage</span></a> (sort of like the old USENET group alt.usage.english or the LinkedIn group <a href="https://social.ridetrans.it/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Grammar</span></a> Geeks). I know there are collections of books folks, editors, linguists, etc., but anything like what I’m talking about?</p>
Matt Coler<p>Fully funded PhD opportunity in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> at the University of Basel (Switzerland) -- relevant topics <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/EnglishLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishLinguistics</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/FrenchLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrenchLinguistics</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GeneralLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeneralLinguistics</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/GermanLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GermanLinguistics</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/RomanceLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RomanceLinguistics</span></a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/ItalianLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ItalianLinguistics</span></a>. and similar. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PhDjobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhDjobs</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/PhDOpportunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhDOpportunity</span></a></p>
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