Andrew Smith
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Andrew Smith
@AndrewDMSmith
Linguistics Lecturer, Stirling University. Look at the blue sky.
Katılım Şubat 2012
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Scottish South Challenge Cup Round 3
Neilston v East Stirlingshire
12 October 2024
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Mooie dag in Schotland, dus ideaal om naar de Highlands te gaan. Keith v Lossiemouth is het affiche vandaag.
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@GrammarTable @pattmlatimes I think so, but I would probably avoid the issue and write 6’.
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@AndrewDMSmith @pattmlatimes Good point. You hear that here too. If you were writing formally, would you make it "feet"?
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These results are surprising to me. No matter the number of languages, I’d still use “language” in that sentence. Voters who said both were OK, are you really truly sure you’d say “languages expert”? I believe some would, but not this many…
Ellen is at the Grammar Table@GrammarTable
Margaret is a ______ (languages, language) expert.
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@GrammarTable @pattmlatimes Not strictly relevant to your point, but I (UK) would actually both say and expect to hear “he’s six foot tall” much more naturally than “he’s six feet tall”.
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@pattmlatimes It's not about that though. It's about whether this is an actual grammatical pattern we'd use in English to express that distinction. We say "He's six FEET tall" but "He's a six-FOOT-tall man." And "She's a BOOK enthusiast," not "She's a BOOKS enthusiast."
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@RocknRichRockin @IMcMillan Yes, that’s exactly what it is. I would often say one at the end of gerri’ as well. But basically the word ‘the’ is pronounced as a glottal stop in Yorkshire and Lancashire.
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@IMcMillan Personally, I don't pronounce the t in the 'in the bin' part, so would write it
Gerrit in' bin.
Is that called a glottal stop where my ' is??
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Re-sharing this since the ownership of Thames Water is in the news...
Jon Stone@joncstone
This 1985 letter to Margaret Thatcher, from the No.10 policy unit, arguing why water should be privatised, is really illuminating because ALL of the arguments are terrible. We can go through them: margaretthatcher.org/document/234496
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Tha an t-Oilthigh a’ comharrachadh Seachdain na Gàidhlig (19mh gu 25mh Gearran) le sreath de òraidean, thachartasan agus ghnìomhan do luchd-obrach, oileanaich agus am poball abdn.ac.uk/events/20251/
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@PIE_Animals I love that this lenition rule was so opaque that it led to the re-analysis of the (presumably very common) word sister in Scottish Gaelic, which is now piuthair (< mo phiuthair)
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My favorite lenition rule in Old Irish:
Normally, s- is lenited to /h-/ (spelled ṡ-):
>> salann 'salt' : mo ṡalann /halan/ 'my salt'
But certain other s-'s are lenited to f- (spelled f- or ph-):
>> siur 'sister' : mo fiur, mo phiur 'my sister'
How so? 👇
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@GrammarTable I could say either, depending on formality, so whether or not I pronounced the <h>. But in writing always a - the alternative seems almost deliberately perverse.
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Which would you (1) say and (2) write? "Ronnie is _____ (a, an) historian."
Comments from professional historians are extra welcome.
Manhattan, NY 🇺🇸 English
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🚨 Announcing:
The Nutmeg Ultimate Scottish Football Bucket List.
The must-sees and dos of our national game, voted for by you the fans to celebrate us reaching magazine Issue 30.
🪣 🏐 A thread. A thread with pictures. Pictures of pies and other lovely things.
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@LauriesXI @TheShireFC Shame the Stirlingshire Cup isn’t revived, maybe even as a cup for the non-league teams in the area.
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This Falkirk Herald match report is from an era when @TheShireFC were at their victorian zenith. Stirlingshire Cup Finals at that time were a huge thing in the county and this another match I would loved to have been at. 21/3/1888 was the day when 'Shire destroyed Falkirk 9-0.
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