Mastodawn

Mercedes Durham Oct 31, 2024

If you're from Scotland, Northern Ireland or the Republic of Ireland you can do these instead:

speakforyersel.ac.uk (Scotland)
speakforyersel.ac.uk/ni/ (NI)
speakforyersel.ac.uk/roi/ (Republic of Ireland)

Mercedes Durham Oct 31, 2024

Our survey on Welsh English officially launches today! Check the maps to see the patterns so far and do the surveys yourself if you're from Wales.

https://nation.cymru/feature/wenglish-experts-research-how-the-english-language-is-used-in-day-to-day-life-in-wales/

Wenglish: Experts research how the English language is used in day-to-day life in Wales

From how some of us pronounce ‘ear’ to the words unique to English speakers in Wales, experts at Cardiff University are researching how the English language is used in our day-to-day lives ‘here’ in Wales. Speak for Yersel was an Arts and Humanities Research Council funded project on Scots at the University of Glasgow. More than […]

Nation.Cymru

Mercedes Durham Aug 8, 2024

Are you from Wales? Are you interested in Welsh specific words, expressions & pronunciations in English?
If so, please take this survey + share it too. It takes about 10min speakforyersel.ac.uk/wales/
(We're planning launch later this year, but want initial responses)
#Wenglish
#WelshEnglish
#linguistics
(Yes, I know I'm not really on here these days, but it felt like a good place to share - ask any questions you like)

Mercedes Durham Aug 14, 2023

I didn't realise they would be setting this up as a debate (since my points were actually more nuanced) but some sense of what I said. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-66464173

Welsh language: Is mixing with English causing 'erosion'?

One campaign group has claimed bilingualism is "always a threat" for a minority language.

BBC News

Mercedes Durham Jul 27, 2023

Nei Thunder

🇨🇦Jul 27, 2023

#Trans #Transgender #Problems

Mercedes Durham Jul 26, 2023

Show thread

Another Angry Woman Jul 26, 2023

so if you ever wonder why the british are so Like That, remember that in the last decade we have had five prime ministers and the objectively least terrible one was the one who actually fucked a pig to get into a posh club

Mercedes Durham Jul 25, 2023

Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)Jul 24, 2023

Number of days before Musk says the Twitter name change was just a joke. HAHAH. All you woke libs fell for it.

2 hours

1.8%

1 day

4.7%

2 days

15.7%

Never, he's an idiot.

77.8%

Poll ended at Jul 25, 2023 at 11:08pm.

Mercedes Durham Jul 24, 2023

I still mostly use the old French name for the main Swiss department store decades after it changed from Placette to Manor. (Ok this may be partly that I only go back a few times a year) What are the odds I’ll stop using Twitter for X? 🤣🤣🤣

Mercedes Durham Jul 10, 2023

Ethan J. A. Schoonover Jul 9, 2023

Someone gave us a towel with our cat's photo on it and now she sleeps exclusively on top of it like some sort of degenerate narcissist 1970s movie star.

Mercedes Durham Jul 9, 2023

Deborah Pickett Jul 9, 2023

I have an autographed copy of Terry Pratchett’s _Eric_. The large-format yellow one with the Josh Kirby artwork. If you haven’t seen it, the front matter has FAUST in a script typeface which has a line through it and ERIC handscrawled underneath.

Of course, when Terry dedicated this book he would cross out ERIC and write the name of the owner of the book underneath.

I took my copy to him twice over the years, so it has my deadname crossed out and DEBBIE under that.

Everyone who knew Terry will be unsurprised to hear that he considered this absolutely mundane; he wished me well with my transition.

I just had a pang of realization why it was so mundane: double-dedicated copies of ERIC are probably not actually that rare. Who else here has one?

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