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Photos of the Hebrides http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010...

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"Scale of the Universe" ...a must see! http://abcnews.go.com/Technol...

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Brilliant! "A Valentine's Reading List" http://www.phdcomics.com/comics... #phdcomics

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Happy Birthday, Arizona!

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Interesting... Putting "the north wind and the sun" + "style-shift" into Google Scholar yields exactly one result! http://books.google.co.uk/books...

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Oxford University's email news bulletin is called "e-Pidge," which is cute. (Though it won't help with pigeon/pidgin confusion.)

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RT @DeafLinguist: I've seen research funded by endangered lang. grant evoke "No, our lang is still strong" response from lang community. Is this common?

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UK/US spelling differences can cause branding issues, i.e. http://www.flightcentre.com/holiday... (scroll to the bottom) @lynneguist @fritinancy

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RT @akustyk: Need to change speech duration? No problem! One mouse click w/ Akustyk 1.9.2: http://bartus.org/akustyk... http://twitter.com/akustyk...

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The Scottish Referendum ballot, in Scots (h/t @kodwos) #independence #humour http://twitter.com/dialect...

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CNF to create Cherokee–language focused reading center: http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/Article... via @AddThis

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BBC News - Gaelic dialects 'dying out', Edinburgh academic warns http://www.bbc.co.uk/news...

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RT @congabonga: @dialect But not very frequently. Noun uses in the BNC: 'research'=16,658 (excluding use in compounds), 'researches'=226.

February 10 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

I thought it was only non-native speakers who use "research" as a count noun (e.g. "researches") but apparently native speakers do, too!

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More on our study of the pronunciation of the word 'Iraq(i)' at my website: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~lhlew...

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"Style-Shifting in Public" is available now! http://books.google.co.uk/books...

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RT @profkrg: "Saying you can't write because of writers block is merely saying you can't write because you aren't writing." Paul Silvia #writing #phdchat

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Day 1 of my new goal of writing 10-15min (no more, no less) every morning before work. #Agraphia

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I just mistyped "Latin borrowings into English" as "Laotian borrowings," which made me chuckle. Quite different social contexts!

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RT @Nkyea: Twi Phrase of the Day: Mebaa ha nkyεe. Deεn na εyε anigyeε wɔ ha? - I just moved here. What's fun to do? http://www.nkyea.com/phrase-...

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RT @lynneguist: Linguistics Research Digest: Who's the expert (on your dialect)? http://linguistics-research-di...

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"I don’t eat porridge every day, but I like making porridge." -my fav quote from http://www.nms.ac.uk/our_mus...

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Bird Feeding at St. Margaret's Loch (5 Feb 2012)

St. Anthony's Chapel, Holyrood Park (5 Feb 2012)

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How "Rich English Tory" vowels become fuel for Scottish independence: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment... #linguistic #capital

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This is outrageous!!! "Menominee Seventh Grader Suspended for Saying 'I Love You' in her Native Language" http://www.nativenewsnetwork.com/menomin...

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RT @seanfw: @dialect in Ireland you'll find that we have to speak as if we were related to the queen for Siri to understand us

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"Ancient Grammar Police" (h/t George Takei's FB page), also at http://imgur.com/gallery/0n21W etc. http://twitter.com/dialect...

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RT @willbarras: Hmm doesn't look like "UK" snow to me. #nosnow in Edinburgh. Apparently there has been a light dusting in SE England http://twitter.com/willbar...

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more on Siri in Scotland: http://www.latimes.com/news...

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That's so gay: http://www.youtube.com/watch... #language #attitudes #linguistic #reform #sociolinguistics

That's so gay: http://t.co/x9TrBiHb #language #attitudes #linguistic #reform #sociolinguistics

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