Rob Penhallurick is author of Studying Dialect (2018), published by Palgrave Macmillan. In another gig, McIntyre has similar fun with the Tyneside dialect: “So I met a Geordie quite recently. It was ...

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A man I know recently spent several weeks visiting his native South Africa. Upon his return to the United States, he found himself one day passing through a certain section of Oakland. Everyone on the ...

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They cause a surprising amount of pain for something so small and can be infuriating to remove. But the slithers of wood buried under skin are also revealing something dramatic about the way we speak.

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