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@stancarey
twitter.com/stancarey
Galway, Ireland
– Writer, editor, artist, lapsed biologist. Twitter themes inc. language, books, arts, poetry, science, nature & nonsense.
6,181 Posts by stancarey
Water Flea Waltz
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Stan Carey
Water Flea Waltz
http://t.co/RsCEA6kU
(piano music from the Max Plankton Institute)
8 hours ago
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Diana Deutsch's Audio Illusions : Phantom Words : Deutsch's Sometimes Behave
philomel.com/phantom_words/sometimes.php
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Auditory illusion by Diana Deutsch that shows the musicality of speech
http://t.co/GQDGuTUM
9 hours ago
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Bloggers’ Questions #3 | Macmillan
macmillandictionaryblog.com/bloggers-questions-3
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Vocabulary gaps in English and other languages
http://t.co/bScRNf1q
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@MacDictionary
9 hours ago
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"It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain." – Jane Wagner
10 hours ago
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New Page 1
idiomsbykids.com/taylor/mrtaylor/class20022003/idioms/idioms2003/idiomsalllinkedon1pg.htm
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I love these. Idioms drawn by children:
http://t.co/D53ydIXE
2 days ago
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I'm convinced that moths can materialise just from shadows and willpower.
2 days ago
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Language Log » The New Yorker vs. the descriptivist specter
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=3985
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Another week, another silly New Yorker article about language.
@bgzimmer
patiently dissects it:
http://t.co/DxW2jDyg
2 days ago
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How's your txtng style? new post looks at the language of text messages
macmillandictionaryblog.com/hows-your-txtng-style
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What's your txtng style?
http://t.co/w8VVOSiT
– today's post at Macmillan Dictionary Blog
2 days ago
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@conorjh
Chambers Slang Dictionary dates exclamatory "my arse" to late 17C. No historical citations, though.
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Cavanese
iol.ie/~cparker/cavanese.htm
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A glossary of Cavanese: English as spoken in Cavan, Ireland
http://t.co/owmAbW4x
2 days ago
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