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The University of Leeds is updating its 19050’s era language survey of the UK.
From the Guardian’s description of the effort,
“Are you terrified by ‘harvest men’ or ‘long-legged tailors’? Do you have ‘ferntickles’ or ‘brunny-spots’ on your face? If someone called you ‘gibble-fisted’ would you be affronted or amused?
The words for daddy long-legs, freckles and left-handed are all examples of English regional dialect discovered in the 1950s by a team of fieldworkers in what was the most comprehensive survey of its kind ever undertaken.”
It will be interesting to see what regionalisms still thrive. Globally, dialects have increasingly been homogenized by the presence of mass media.
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