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A Spectre is Haunting Unicode

#characters #encoding #history #japanese #language #typography #unicode

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Y’all, You’uns, Yinz, Youse: How Regional Dialects Are Fixing Standard English | Atlas Obscura

#dialects #english #fix #history #language #linguistics #old_english #scots

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Why is English so weirdly different from other langu...

#english #history #language #linguistics #toread

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Polari, the gay dialect, can be heard in this great short film “Putting on the Dish.”

#Britain #dialect #history #homosexuality #language #polari #preservation | <blockquote>Of all the cultural forms that gay men have created and elaborated since coalescing into a social group around the late 19th century, Polari, a full-fledged gay English dialect with roots among circus folk, sailors, and prostitutes, has to be one of the most fascinating—not least since it has faded...</blockquote>

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