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Biting our time with eggcorns

November 21, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in linguistic essay

An introduction to eggcorns using examples from the Eggcorn Database, NPR, and other sources

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November 21, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
language variation, eggcorns, malapropisms, folk etymology
linguistic essay
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The Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies →

November 16, 2015 by Lamont Antieau in linguistic essay, language variation, corpus dialectology, corpus linguistics, dialectology

An introduction to the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies for readers who are not familiar with the project.

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November 16, 2015 /Lamont Antieau
dialectology, corpus linguistics, linguistic atlas of the western states, western american english, rocky mountains, lee pederson, linguistic atlas of the middle rockies, rocky mountain english, american west, LAMR intro post
linguistic essay, language variation, corpus dialectology, corpus linguistics, dialectology
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