My Big Idea About The Word “BIG”

Bilingualism, borrowing, and the trouble with F and W

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My Big Idea About The Word “BIG”

Bilingualism, borrowing, and the trouble with F and W

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Here's a clip of the #Welsh #language being mocked in the #horror #film The Old Dark House back in 1932: "Even Welsh ought not sound like that." It seems exceptional that #languageattitudes towards Welsh have remained as positive as they are (Lee 2016) despite the sort of long-lived casual overt stigmatization that this clip suggests.

#linguistics #sociolinguistics #languageideology #languagecontact #Wales #England #UK

https://youtu.be/wk5EwkRPBiU

The Old Dark House (1932) - Joke at the expense of Welsh

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