I discovered some fun language facts this week and just wanted to share.
Category: Linguistics
So I haven’t been updating this blog very much, unsurprisingly. I have officially started grad school! We’re about to start the 7th week of my first quarter here at UC San Diego. It’s been really intense, but we have a long weekend this week, so I am trying to catch up on a few things.
One of the many festivals that comes to Edinburgh in August is the International Book Festival. The only event I got to go to was a talk by David Crystal. He was talking about his two latest books, one of which talked about dialects, and the other accents (which he co-wrote with his son). I…