A fb thread made me pull out this SNL clip and I thought I'd share here, too. 32 years old and still lolsob hilarious and brilliant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWMp_z7Jnxw

"NBC News Personnel really emphasis the pronunciation of Spanish words, while the new Economics Correspondent does not. Aired 11/10/90"

#sociolinguistics #linguistics #loanwords #USEnglish #Spanish #pronunciation #awkward #soawkward

The #AmericanDialectSociety will be voting on their #WordsOfTheYear tonight at their and the #LinguisticSocietyOfAmerica's annual meetings in Denver.

Here are the candidates for the categories: https://www.americandialect.org/nominations-for-words-of-the-year-2022

This year only ppl registered for the meetings will have access to the live feed and voting. 😩

#linguistics #LSA #woty #USEnglish

Really Microsoft Word 2021, you don't have the word "odor" in your dictionary? gonna underline that in red as if to make underhanded remarks about my literacy? Well my literacy may be questionable, but that's definitely a goddamned word you jumped up Paperclip assistant host. You're set to the US English dictionary and everything (Piece is set in the USA, with American characters, thus correct spellings are the American ones.) #MicrosoftWord #BritishEnglish #USEnglish

@insurgentem
Salinger was notoriously private about his personal life and never conceded to journalists or biographers interviews about his life. "A CATCHER IN THE RYE" is a novel forced upon kids to read in "English "class in western countries. The entire novel describes the mind of a rich nihilistic violent and elite white prep school kid who complains constantly about everything being "phony". #salinger #usenglish #incel