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  1. A quotation from Anthony Burgess

    Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallizes lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

    Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) English novelist
    A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages … Especially English, ch. 21 “Sounds from the Past” (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/burgess-anthony/7114…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #burgess #anthonyburgess #artifact #evolution #language #linguistics #orthography #passageoftime #pronunciation #spelling #timelag

  2. A quotation from Anthony Burgess

    Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallizes lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

    Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) English novelist
    A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages … Especially English, ch. 21 “Sounds from the Past” (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/burgess-anthony/7114…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #burgess #anthonyburgess #artifact #evolution #language #linguistics #orthography #passageoftime #pronunciation #spelling #timelag

  3. A quotation from Anthony Burgess

    Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallizes lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

    Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) English novelist
    A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages … Especially English, ch. 21 “Sounds from the Past” (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/burgess-anthony/7114…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #burgess #anthonyburgess #artifact #evolution #language #linguistics #orthography #passageoftime #pronunciation #spelling #timelag

  4. A quotation from Anthony Burgess

    Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallizes lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

    Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) English novelist
    A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages … Especially English, ch. 21 “Sounds from the Past” (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/burgess-anthony/7114…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #burgess #anthonyburgess #artifact #evolution #language #linguistics #orthography #passageoftime #pronunciation #spelling #timelag

  5. A quotation from Anthony Burgess

    Languages never stand still. Modern spelling crystallizes lost pronunciations: the visual never quite catches up with the aural.

    Anthony Burgess (1917-1993) English novelist
    A Mouthful of Air: Language, Languages … Especially English, ch. 21 “Sounds from the Past” (1992)

    More about this quote: wist.info/burgess-anthony/7114…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #burgess #anthonyburgess #artifact #evolution #language #linguistics #orthography #passageoftime #pronunciation #spelling #timelag

  6. Spy chief’s Iran revelations expose organised crime-terror link in Australia

    Established organised crime networks have handed hostile state actors a ready-made platform to operate inside Australia, a national…
    #Australia #asio #AU #Austrlia #Burgess #Mike #Shoebridge #SkyNews #Spy #terrorism #tobacco
    europesays.com/australia/39879/

  7. I walked 25km today which is the most walking I've ever done my entire life. Even the hike to the #Burgess shale (which I got to do a lifetime ago in field school) is only 22km.

    Another successful trip for #googIecloudnext2026 but I can't feel my feet right now

  8. I walked 25km today which is the most walking I've ever done my entire life. Even the hike to the #Burgess shale (which I got to do a lifetime ago in field school) is only 22km.

    Another successful trip for #googIecloudnext2026 but I can't feel my feet right now

  9. I walked 25km today which is the most walking I've ever done my entire life. Even the hike to the #Burgess shale (which I got to do a lifetime ago in field school) is only 22km.

    Another successful trip for #googIecloudnext2026 but I can't feel my feet right now

  10. I walked 25km today which is the most walking I've ever done my entire life. Even the hike to the #Burgess shale (which I got to do a lifetime ago in field school) is only 22km.

    Another successful trip for #googIecloudnext2026 but I can't feel my feet right now

  11. Poet Rebekah Burgess explores love and loss in latest book ‘Hope Floats’

    “Things then seemed to just naturally flow around that.” The book is dedicated to that “key figure” in…
    #NewsBeep #News #Books #and #AU #Australia #book #burgess #Entertainment #Explores #fear #floats #hope #in #latest #Loss #love #manawatraised #motherhood #peace #poet #Poetry #rangitkei #rebekah #release #tackling #themes
    newsbeep.com/au/118801/

  12. Gli scorsi mesi di giugno e agosto sono stati i più caldi mai registrati e nel complesso, l'estate boreale 2024 (ovvero giugno-luglio-agosto) è stata la più calda di sempre.

    E' quanto spiega Samantha #Burgess, vicedirettrice del Copernicus Climate Change Service, il servizio europeo sul clima.

    ANSA
    #cambiamentoclimatico #ecologia

  13. Gli scorsi mesi di giugno e agosto sono stati i più caldi mai registrati e nel complesso, l'estate boreale 2024 (ovvero giugno-luglio-agosto) è stata la più calda di sempre.

    E' quanto spiega Samantha #Burgess, vicedirettrice del Copernicus Climate Change Service, il servizio europeo sul clima.

    ANSA
    #cambiamentoclimatico #ecologia

  14. Gli scorsi mesi di giugno e agosto sono stati i più caldi mai registrati e nel complesso, l'estate boreale 2024 (ovvero giugno-luglio-agosto) è stata la più calda di sempre.

    E' quanto spiega Samantha #Burgess, vicedirettrice del Copernicus Climate Change Service, il servizio europeo sul clima.

    ANSA
    #cambiamentoclimatico #ecologia