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GirlCroosh · @pseudonymsupreme
903 followers · 449 posts · Server pnw.zone

I regularly use the word “chunga” in conversation with folks who speak . Everyone seems to get what I’m saying contextually and no one has ever asked me what it means. The word basically means “watch over” or “take care of” so it’s very practical. Are there other uncommon non terms you use with good success?

#swahili #americanenglish #english #linguistics

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Paula Kate Marmor · @PKM
150 followers · 484 posts · Server wikis.world

So when did we lose "might" as the past tense of "may"?

> If it hadn't rained, they might never have met.

> If it hadn't rained, they may never have met.

Only the first construction sounds correct to my ear, but I rarely read anything but the second these days. Is this a vs. distinction? Is it just the language marching on and leaving me behind?

#britishenglish #americanenglish #english #grammar #language #lingusitics #usage

Last updated 1 year ago
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Sir Golfer Harris 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱 · @sirgolferharris
178 followers · 286 posts · Server troet.cafe
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Just recently in our former colonies…

#BritishEnglish #americanenglish #usa #lustigesgegendoofes

Last updated 1 year ago
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Irene · @elmerot
69 followers · 717 posts · Server mastodon.nu
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The upcoming LANA corpus of American English is still looking for people, especially non-women over 30 years old, to complete their spoken corpus. Please check out bitly.ws/wgjh for more information! And please boost around the US if you can.



#paidsurveys #cl2023 #corpuslinguistics #americanenglish

Last updated 1 year ago
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StringsAndReeds · @StringsAndReeds
10 followers · 279 posts · Server talk.artsculture.media

A weird thing about learning French on DuoLingo is that Britons must not only dodge the mispronunciations in the French examples ('dos' and 'bus' are annoying - former wrongly "doss", latter wrongly "bu" ) but also translate via a third language, ie American English. Freeway for motorway, couch for sofa/settee, soccer for football, parking lot for car park, grade for (school) class, etc. It's not critical but it's a significant additional challenge.

#duolingo #britishenglish #americanenglish

Last updated 1 year ago
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WACOCA · @wacoca
31 followers · 8182 posts · Server mastodon.cloud
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ルパート・グリントとエマ・ワトソンの絆の英会話🤝/ ハリー・ポッター特番の時の英語✨ wacoca.com/videos/1770867/glob

# 'sEnglishRoom/掛山ケビ志郎 －ルちか －ル英会話

#英語耳 #america #american #americanenglish #english #film #filmclips #garibentv #hapa英会話 #kevin #lupasensei #movie #movieclip #thisis英会話 #youtube #youtuber #youtube英語 #アメリカ英語 #イギリス英語 #エマ・ワトソン #サマー先生と英会話 #スピーキング #ニック式英会話 #バイリンガ #バイリンガル #ヒアリング #リスニング #リスニングnews #リスニング英単語 #勉強 #勉強法 #映画 #映画紹介 #留学 #留学生 #英会話が好きな人と繋がりたい #英会話スクール #英会話上達法 #英会話仙人トモヤさん #英会話学習 #英会話家庭教師 #英会話教室 #英会話無料 #英語基礎 #語学勉強 #語学学習

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Jyoti Mishra · @Jyoti
1223 followers · 7232 posts · Server mas.to

@mdm @LinuxAndYarn @amy @doot @dan

I find this sooooo weird!

I can't believe 'moist' is a taboo word in the US.

I'm fully waiting for someone to confess they're pulling my plums.

#taboos #swearing #ukenglish #americanenglish #sociolinguistics

Last updated 1 year ago
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Erick RM · @erickrm
63 followers · 149 posts · Server mstdn.social
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I’m reading this book now, very interesting, “The People’s Tongue” Americans and The English Language. Author Ilan Stavans Publisher Restless Books

#americanenglish #englishlanguage #BooksofMastodon #Books

Last updated 2 years ago
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メア · @biju_ska
7 followers · 110 posts · Server mas.to

An - I work in , I speak , , (下手), and have started learning . Even though Spanish was my second learned language, Japanese is my second language. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of opportunities to speak either as much as I'd like

I fell into a K food/drama/pop hole during 2020. It's fun down here

I enjoy beer. A lot.

Sometimes I run. Lately, I haven't but really want to. Breweries + 5ks are how I spend my weekends.

#한국어 #日本語 #espanol #americanenglish #libraries #introduction

Last updated 2 years ago
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J. Steven York · @jstevenyork
161 followers · 1072 posts · Server mastodon.social

If you live long enough you'll get to experience the evolving out from under you.
Just watched a well researched video on the effects of altitude and terrain on population distribution in Mexico, and listened to the presenter pronouncing "mountain" as "mownun" approximately one BILLION times.
So now my ears are bleeding. Yet the world moves on.

#language #youtube #pronunciation #americanenglish #dialect #perspective

Last updated 2 years ago
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Kristian Harstad · @KristianHarstad
449 followers · 1002 posts · Server mastodon.cloud

do you say ( style, as in "out") or route ( style, as in "root")?

#english #american #americanenglish #BritishEnglish #path #route #network #networking #routing #router #us #uk #pronunciation

Last updated 2 years ago
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Uriel {Cohen Priva} /uʁ̞iel/ · @urielcohenpriva
53 followers · 19 posts · Server lingo.lol
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Finally out at Journal of : our corpus-based acoustic study of and

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

We show that all vowels *including schwa* assimilate to context (as expected), but they also neutralize toward [ᵻ] (a mid-high position).

This is actually pretty surprising! Because the dominant views are neutralization (to schwa; phonologists' take) or assimilation (to context; phoneticians' take), but vowels do both.

So, what's going on?

#phonetics #americanenglish #schwa #vowelreduction

Last updated 2 years ago
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Uriel {Cohen Priva} /uʁ̞iel/ · @urielcohenpriva
53 followers · 19 posts · Server lingo.lol
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Finally out at Journal of : our corpus-based acoustic study of and

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

We show that all vowels *including schwa* assimilate to context (as expected), but they also neutralize toward [ᵻ] (a mid-high position).

This is actually pretty surprising! Because the dominant views are neutralization (to schwa; phonologists' take) or assimilation (to context; phoneticians' take), but vowels do both.

So, what's going on?

#phonetics #americanenglish #schwa #vowelreduction

Last updated 2 years ago
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M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
235 followers · 14262 posts · Server mamot.fr

Why do people say pronounce codified with a short "o"? Don't they realise that it refers to long "o" codes, such as law codes?

I'm going to blame the Americans.


#americanenglish #pronunciation #english

Last updated 4 years ago
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☆joene☆ · @joenepraat
1239 followers · 20233 posts · Server todon.nl
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Some old-fashioned before I go to sleep. 💤

*North American English Dialects, Based on Pronunciation Patterns*

Interactive: aschmann.net/AmEng/#LargeMap4R

Full high res: aschmann.net/AmEng/index_colle

Source: aschmann.net/AmEng

#dialects #unitedstates #canada #americanenglish #english #languages #mapporn

Last updated 5 years ago
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