'Strong R' in Danger of Disappearing Across North of England, Study Finds
I'm usually reluctant to make predictions about technology, but I feel fairly confident about this one: in a couple decades there won't be many people who can write.
Paul Graham • Writes and Write-Nots
You can learn an awful lot about people, culture, and politics by studying R, it turns out. Also, it’s really weird, and linguists love that.
Dan Nosowitz • The ‘Crispy R’ and Why R Is the Weirdest Letter
It’s also pretty likely that, even if linguists come up with a more precise name for the phenomenon, it will be forever referred to in academic literature and conferences as “known in the wider population as the ‘crispy R.’” All from some TikToks.
Dan Nosowitz • The ‘Crispy R’ and Why R Is the Weirdest Letter
they discovered that the pronunciation of some of the words had changed ever so slightly. What they were seeing was the beginning of a new accent emerging.
Richard Gray • Isolated for Six Months, Scientists in Antarctica Began to Develop Their Own Accent
Despite a lifetime of speaking, we can remain unaware of having a style of speaking. Yankees in Maine or Good ol’ Boys in Louisiana think that people from Brooklyn talk funny. WASPS in the Chicago suburbs think that Poles or Lithuanians in Chicago speak English with an accent, as if the suburban WASPS, the Yankees, and the Good ol’ Boys speak just
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