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"Loco" in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies

October 11, 2016 by Lamont Antieau in Western American English, corpus analysis

A post on the uses of the morpheme loco in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies, particularly those uses in relation to locoweed and its effect on livestock.

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October 11, 2016 /Lamont Antieau
linguistic atlas of the rocky mountains, linguistic atlas of the middle rockies, linguistic atlas of the western states, loco, locoweed
Western American English, corpus analysis
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"Hotter than &%$#!"

August 01, 2016 by Lamont Antieau in corpus dialectology

A post looking at variation expressions for "the weather is hotter than" in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies.

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August 01, 2016 /Lamont Antieau
weather expressions, rocky mountain english, billy hell, billy blue blazes, hotter than hell, hotter than hades, zipf's law, language variation, western american english, linguistic atlas of the rocky mountains, linguistic atlas of the western states
corpus dialectology
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