| Early September pile of links | |
| Chocolate-covered URLs! | |
| Gambol dum Ghor! | |
| In the various Gaelic languages the word for English is derived from Saxon, hence the use in the Tyrconnell War Song. In most other languages, the word for English is derived from the Anglo side of things. (r/linguistics) | |
| This might not quite be what you're looking for: http://joeclark.org/en-ca/ (r/linguistics) | |
| Indo-European Jones (r/linguistics) | |
| I'm from New England and both these sound bizarre to me. (r/linguistics) | |
| Similarly, the names for the English in almost all languages is derived from the Angles, whereas in the Celtic languages the names for the English are derived from Saxon. This is to some extent due to where the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons settled in Great Britain.
French: Anglais
Irish: Sasanach (r/linguistics) | |
| Ever wondered what to call it when people use a string of punctuation instead of a curse? &@$# me, there's a word for that! (r/linguistics) | |
| Reid's Three Little Words: The Log In Our Own Eye (r/linguistics) | |
| On Wordie: http://wordie.org/lists/3295 (r/linguistics) | |
| Happy Dictionary Day! | |
| BlogDay 2007 | |
| The Snowclones Database | |
| “The wife” | |
| The joy of new words | |