The ‘Crispy R’ and Why R Is the Weirdest Letter
according to Lancaster University researchers, that "r"s are becoming a thing of the past in England—apart from in Blackburn, where the "r" is still very much rolling.
PhysOrg.com • Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity
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Gabriel McCarthy • Why is Our Vocabulary Changing So Much?
the thing about the bouba/kiki effect is that it shows us that maybe not all signs are arbitrary , which is pretty fucking cool. A lot of us have a pretty strong impulse to use back vowels (like “ou”) and voiced plosives (like “b”) or nasals (like “m”) to talk about curvy shapes. That is to say, we see a soft round thing and we point at it and go
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