"Without knowing, I had used that thing for which the English reserve a visceral dislike: their language, loaded and aimed by the old enemy."
—Eavan Boland, on using the word "amn't" in a London school at the age of 6 or 7
I'm surprised to find out that bavarian (austro-bavarian) dialects are considered "vulnerable" according to wikipedia.
Uhmm what?
How many millions of speakers does a dialect need to be considered "safe"?
afaict this reeks of being potentially just gen-ai-slop, but if not then at the very least the machine-generated voiceover & non-disable-able onscreen transcript were an unending misery for me to endure. yet, despite that, much of this was simply hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eYjd3B-VMQ
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others have already posted & discussed this several hours ago https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-12/precautionary-dam-inspections-after-boorowa-earthquake/106444684, but my take here is on a different track altogether.
'Freight train' earthquakesounding like a "bomb" or "freight train".It was like a freight train coming through the housein strayan state govt railways, certainly nsw's nswgr / ptc / sra, & i believe most if not all other states, we had mainline & branchline passenger services, & goods services, ie, the latter's trains were... goods trains. that was so for over a hundred years, & was still true until at least 1989. over that whole period, it was merely merkans who had freight trains, not us.Saw this sentence with both the Irish English "give out" and a standardized-English "give out":
"The banks often give out¹ that the rules are too tight and they can’t give out² the money people need."
¹ complain
² issue, distribute
Source and commentary: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/giving-out-irish-style/
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in protest against this language i speak slurr'd 'n cut a drawl
"if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon crawl"
we say "ain't", "yee haw" and "naw" - so would yew if ya had the gall
no games, a hootenanny's just the way that we ball
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Cover of Domenico Mudugno's "Lu Pisce Spada". A song in Sicilian dialect recounting a true story about a male swordfish jumping on a fishing boat that had just fished its pregnant partner to "die with his love". The story even made it into the local news at the time. What a wonderfully poetic song, interpreted by an amazing upcoming italian musician.
Well, I've learned that Seamus Heaney used "coolth" in one of his poems, as did Rudyard Kipling and Ezra Pound. Tolkien used it once (not in a book), but was mostly joking, and most of the other modern written usages seem to be at least partly humorous.
It doesn't seem to be a standard word anywhere.
Edit: Thank you to everyone who answered. The word apparently isn't used much (or at all) anywhere.
I recently finished a book in which the author used the word "coolth" as the opposite of "warmth." I did not think "coolth" existed as a word. It doesn't in the dialect of English I speak.
Does it exist as a common word in your variety of English?
If so, where are you from?
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