Because Language (becauselangpod)

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A show about linguistics, the science of language. Your hosts (in order of coolness): Hedvig Skirgård, Daniel Midgley, and Ben Ainslie (tie for 2nd). patreon.com/becauselangpod

Drawing of a person on a hill. Text: Don't die on grammar hills Sit at the top Pick the grammar dandelions Feel the grammar wind on your grammar face And touch the grammar grass
A sticker on a laptop. It says “BECASUE LANGAUGE” and there are red squiggles under the two misspelled words
Sticker: "Lingusitics is the science of langauge." Red squiggles appear under the two misspelled words
Screenshot of Daniel, Ben, and Hedvig, with the winning word: temu (derogatory): a cheap or knock -off version
The buffalo buffalo design
A screenshot of the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) chart, with only the pulmonic consonants highlighted
Album cover: Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout. The band is pictured astride and around a motorcycle.
now Daniel has drawn an image of himself over the top of everyone in highlighter, but this time he has crazy hair
A screenshot of the Because Language gang: Hedvig, Caitlin, and Ben. But curiously, no Daniel. Text from Hedvig: Im sorry @Daniel i don’t know why you’re not included in the picture
A cartoon avatar representing me, sitting on a couch in the Gather space
OED listing of how the word ENOUGH was spelled in Middle English: anogh (East Anglian and northern), anoght (northern), anouȝ, anought, anouh (east midlands), anowȝ, anowgh (East Anglian and east midlands), anowh (East Anglian and east midlands), anowth (East Anglian), enewgh (chiefly north-east midlands), enewghe (north-east midlands), enewyghe (north-east midlands), enoȝ, enoȝe, enoght (northern and north midlands), enoghte (northern), enoh, enohe, enohut (northern), enohw (northern), enouȝ, enouhe, enoweh (northern), enowȝe, enowȝh, enowght (northern), enowh, enowthe (Berkshire), enoyght (north-east midlands), enuch, enugh, enughe, enuȝhe, enwgh, ȝnowȝe (north-west midlands), inewgh (north-east midlands), innghe (north-west midlands, transmission error), innoȝe (north-west midlands), innogh (chiefly north-west midlands), innoghe (chiefly north-west midlands), inoȝ, inoȝe, inoȝh, inoȝhe, inoght (chiefly northern), inoȝht (north-west midlands), inoȝth, inogthe (northern), inohe, inoht (northern), inouȝ, inouȝe, inouȝh, inouȝt (north-east midlands), inouh, inoutȝ, inouþe, inouvȝ, inovȝ, inovgh, inowȝ, inowge, inowȝe, inowgȝ, inowȝhe, inowȝþ, inowh, inowhe, inowthe, inuȝhe, jnogh, jnouȝ, jnough, jnowȝ, jnowge, jnowgh, jnowh, jnowhe, yinoghe, ynewȝ, ynewȝe (north-east midlands), ynewgh (north-east midlands), ynoch, ynoȝ, ynoȝe, ynoȝgh, ynoghe, ynoghȝ, ynoghȝe, ynoght, ynoh, ynouȝ, ynouȝe, ynouȝk (east midlands), ynouh, ynouhe, ynouhȝ, ynovȝt (north midlands), ynowȝ, ynowȝe, ynowȝh, ynowght, ynowȝt (north midlands), ynowgth, ynowh, ynowþȝ, ynugh (north-west midlands, in a late copy), ynuȝhe (north-west midlands)
This was a sign posted in the Northern Territory of Australia warning people not to eat the fish, crabs, or mussels. It was intended to be written in Kriol, but whoever wrote this was unfamiliar with the language, and it's nonsense. Text of sign: CAUTION This one krik lunga being looked at for wadrim trabul in them months May and June Make sure you don't eatem any bij, kreb or masul An accurate translation would have been: "La Mei en Jun, mela testimbat dijan woda bla meiksho im klinwan en seifwan. Nomo idim eni fish, kreb o masul dumaji im maitbi nogud." Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-01/kriol-sign-warning-of-contamination-in-nt-creek-nonsensical/7543474
The screen grab of the Boston Morning Post, 23 March 1839: The above is from the Providence Journal, the editor of which is a little too quick on the trigger, on this occasion. We said not a word about our deputation passing "through the city" of Providence. We said our brethren were going to New York in the Richmond, and they did go, as per Post of Thursday. The "Chairman of the Committee on Charity Lecture Bells," is one of the deputation, and perhaps if he should return to Boston, via Providence, he of the Journal, and his trein-band, would have the "contribution box," et ceteras, o.k.—all correct—and cause the corks to fly, like sparks, upward
A sticker of a Linguistic Chaos Goblin tenting his fingers in a sinister fashion, saying "Irregardless!"
Mugs with the Grammar Hills design. The mug has the same design on either side, so whether you are left- or right-handed, you can still see it.
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Past tense Middle English arofe, arrofe, aryuen (plural) Middle English–1500s aroue 1800s ariv 1800s– arrove 1900s arriv
From the Oxford English dictionary: Past participle Middle English arevyn, aryuen, aryven 1900s arriven
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