Archive for July, 2008

Jul 27 2008

Language in Other Words

Published by MissSpelling under Main Floor

  • Born and raised in New York, Dodi Robbins graduated from Harvard University and has been practising law for 13 years.
    Her first language is English. Yet like all other skilled immigrants applying to settle in Canada, the American corporate lawyer must now take a [...]" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2498">Language tests for immigrants in Canada
  • Ça planait pas dans sa voix
  • " href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2496">Defaults and Climate
  • Ask Language Log: “acrosst”
  • On a whim, my mother wiki-ed "eggcorn" and, lo and behold, we discovered your term.
    I can't tell you how excited [...]" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2494">Sweet Jersey eggcorn
  • Language variability: pin vs pen and beyond
  • Hangzhou Wordplay
  • How you speak and how you think you speak: Part 1
  • Antedating “refudiate”
  • We have to go to him for supplies and he always make me repeat myself whenever I ask for [...]" href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2489">Pin or pen?

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