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"Andirons" in the Middle Rockies

December 12, 2016 by Lamont Antieau in lexical variation, dialectology, language variation, corpus dialectology, Western American English

A post on andiron variants in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle Rockies

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December 12, 2016 /Lamont Antieau
andirons, fireplaces, grates, linguistic atlas projects, linguistic atlas of the western states, linguistic atlas of the middle rockies, word search
lexical variation, dialectology, language variation, corpus dialectology, Western American English
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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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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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