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Dedicated to the study of language variation and change in American English, with special regard to the West, pop lyrics, and social media.

 

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a-prefixing in pop music (1951-2014)

December 04, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in corpus analysis, music video essay

An analysis of a-prefixing (e.g. in a-laughing and a-singing) as it occurs in American pop music (1951-2014), with accompanying videos featuring songs in which it is used

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December 04, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
a-prefixing in pop music, language variation in pop music
corpus analysis, music video essay
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"Put up" or "can it"?

December 01, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in dialectology, corpus analysis

An analysis of variation in terms for canning in the Middle Rockies

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December 01, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
lexical variation, regional variation, preserving food, canning in lamr
dialectology, corpus analysis
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Sports idioms in Top Ten music (1951-2014)

November 29, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in corpus analysis, music video essay

Here I take a look at how sports idioms are used in American pop music (1951-2014) and provide videos of songs in which of these idioms are used.

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November 29, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
sports idioms in pop music, pop lyrics, sports idioms, idioms, word search
corpus analysis, music video essay
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"Moonshine" in the Rocky Mountains

November 25, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in dialectology, corpus analysis

This post focuses on the different terms used to talk about unlicensed liquor in the Middle Rockies.

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November 25, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
illegal alcohol, moonshine, hooch, white lightning, rocky mountain moonshine, linguistic atlas projects, word search
dialectology, corpus analysis
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More eggcorns in tweets

November 24, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in corpus analysis

A post of even more eggcorns found in a 2013 Twitter collection

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November 24, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
more eggcorns in twitter, twitter eggcorns
corpus analysis
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Eggcorns in Top 10 lyrics

November 22, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in corpus analysis, music video essay

A presentation of eggcorns found in a collection of lyrics from American pop music (1951-2014), with accompanying videos

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November 22, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
eggcorns in pop music, pop music
corpus analysis, music video essay
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Blame it on the rain*: "Gutters" in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies

November 19, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in dialectology, corpus analysis

An analysis of variation in terms for gutters in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies

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November 19, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
lexical variation, gutters, linguistic atlas projects, linguistic atlas of the western states, word search
dialectology, corpus analysis
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Quiver me timbers: Variants of "aspen" in the Middle Rockies

November 16, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in dialectology, corpus analysis

An analysis of variation in terms denoting aspen in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies

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November 16, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
lexical variation, aspen, quaking aspen, quaking asp, quakies, aspens, quaker, dialectology, american english, western american english, rocky mountain english, word search
dialectology, corpus analysis
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