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  1. Having linguistics training and a hobby interest in dialects of English, wondering around downtown Wellington, NZ listening to people talk is fascinating. Naturally a variety of NZ dialects, Australian, Indian, North American dialects, and that’s just in 24 hours. 🙂 #NewZealand #EnglishDialects

  2. Having linguistics training and a hobby interest in dialects of English, wondering around downtown Wellington, NZ listening to people talk is fascinating. Naturally a variety of NZ dialects, Australian, Indian, North American dialects, and that’s just in 24 hours. 🙂 #NewZealand #EnglishDialects

  3. Talk Dialect is a national initiative to capture, preserve, and revitalise the 39 historic county dialects of England as a living digital and onchain record. Built on existing community-driven collections, it will create an open, collaborative online wiki — anchored at talkdialect.co.uk — where users contribute words, phrases, pronunciations, and family sayings in real time.

    https://nikkiwordsmith.com/talk-dialect-white-paper/
  4. Talk Dialect is a national initiative to capture, preserve, and revitalise the 39 historic county dialects of England as a living digital and onchain record. Built on existing community-driven collections, it will create an open, collaborative online wiki — anchored at talkdialect.co.uk — where users contribute words, phrases, pronunciations, and family sayings in real time.

    https://nikkiwordsmith.com/talk-dialect-white-paper/
  5. Talk Dialect is a national initiative to capture, preserve, and revitalise the 39 historic county dialects of England as a living digital and onchain record. Built on existing community-driven collections, it will create an open, collaborative online wiki — anchored at talkdialect.co.uk — where users contribute words, phrases, pronunciations, and family sayings in real time.

    https://nikkiwordsmith.com/talk-dialect-white-paper/
  6. Talk Dialect is a national initiative to capture, preserve, and revitalise the 39 historic county dialects of England as a living digital and onchain record. Built on existing community-driven collections, it will create an open, collaborative online wiki — anchored at talkdialect.co.uk — where users contribute words, phrases, pronunciations, and family sayings in real time.

    https://nikkiwordsmith.com/talk-dialect-white-paper/
  7. Talk Dialect is a national initiative to capture, preserve, and revitalise the 39 historic county dialects of England as a living digital and onchain record. Built on existing community-driven collections, it will create an open, collaborative online wiki — anchored at talkdialect.co.uk — where users contribute words, phrases, pronunciations, and family sayings in real time.

    https://nikkiwordsmith.com/talk-dialect-white-paper/
  8. @yvanspijk I've been enjoying your language infographics!

    Here's a puzzler: do you have any idea where the pronunciation in some US English accents of the word "across" as "acrost" comes from? As in "I haven't come acrost that before?"

    What drives such a pronunciation to occur? Is it an #eggcorn? "I haven't come a crossed that before?" (Maybe borrowing from archaic "I'll go a-walking"?)

    #linguistics #UsEnglish #LanguageEvolution #EnglishDialects

  9. @yvanspijk I've been enjoying your language infographics!

    Here's a puzzler: do you have any idea where the pronunciation in some US English accents of the word "across" as "acrost" comes from? As in "I haven't come acrost that before?"

    What drives such a pronunciation to occur? Is it an #eggcorn? "I haven't come a crossed that before?" (Maybe borrowing from archaic "I'll go a-walking"?)

    #linguistics #UsEnglish #LanguageEvolution #EnglishDialects

  10. @yvanspijk I've been enjoying your language infographics!

    Here's a puzzler: do you have any idea where the pronunciation in some US English accents of the word "across" as "acrost" comes from? As in "I haven't come acrost that before?"

    What drives such a pronunciation to occur? Is it an #eggcorn? "I haven't come a crossed that before?" (Maybe borrowing from archaic "I'll go a-walking"?)

    #linguistics #UsEnglish #LanguageEvolution #EnglishDialects

  11. @yvanspijk I've been enjoying your language infographics!

    Here's a puzzler: do you have any idea where the pronunciation in some US English accents of the word "across" as "acrost" comes from? As in "I haven't come acrost that before?"

    What drives such a pronunciation to occur? Is it an #eggcorn? "I haven't come a crossed that before?" (Maybe borrowing from archaic "I'll go a-walking"?)

    #linguistics #UsEnglish #LanguageEvolution #EnglishDialects

  12. @yvanspijk I've been enjoying your language infographics!

    Here's a puzzler: do you have any idea where the pronunciation in some US English accents of the word "across" as "acrost" comes from? As in "I haven't come acrost that before?"

    What drives such a pronunciation to occur? Is it an #eggcorn? "I haven't come a crossed that before?" (Maybe borrowing from archaic "I'll go a-walking"?)

    #linguistics #UsEnglish #LanguageEvolution #EnglishDialects

  13. Cornell University: Amazon’s AI assistant struggles with diverse dialects, study finds. “A new Cornell study revealed that Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, gives vague or incorrect responses to users writing in some English dialects, such as African American English (AAE), especially when prompts contain typos.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/19/cornell-university-amazons-ai-assistant-struggles-with-diverse-dialects-study-finds/

  14. Cornell University: Amazon’s AI assistant struggles with diverse dialects, study finds. “A new Cornell study revealed that Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, gives vague or incorrect responses to users writing in some English dialects, such as African American English (AAE), especially when prompts contain typos.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/19/cornell-university-amazons-ai-assistant-struggles-with-diverse-dialects-study-finds/

  15. Cornell University: Amazon’s AI assistant struggles with diverse dialects, study finds. “A new Cornell study revealed that Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, gives vague or incorrect responses to users writing in some English dialects, such as African American English (AAE), especially when prompts contain typos.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/19/cornell-university-amazons-ai-assistant-struggles-with-diverse-dialects-study-finds/

  16. Cornell University: Amazon’s AI assistant struggles with diverse dialects, study finds. “A new Cornell study revealed that Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, gives vague or incorrect responses to users writing in some English dialects, such as African American English (AAE), especially when prompts contain typos.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/19/cornell-university-amazons-ai-assistant-struggles-with-diverse-dialects-study-finds/

  17. I remember two Scottish people asking me for directions (I think) in Portugal after they heard me speaking English. They’re probably still lost out there, twenty years later, confusing the hell outta people. (tyw) #EnglishDialects #Dialects

  18. @punkonbus1701 I find it odd that folks here use the term ‘multiple-choice’ quiz or poll to say that the respondents can choose more than one answer. Usage where I attended university and school was that a ‘multiple-choice test’ describes a test where, for each question, you choose one correct answer from a list of possible ones. #Englishdialects

  19. @punkonbus1701 I find it odd that folks here use the term ‘multiple-choice’ quiz or poll to say that the respondents can choose more than one answer. Usage where I attended university and school was that a ‘multiple-choice test’ describes a test where, for each question, you choose one correct answer from a list of possible ones. #Englishdialects

  20. @punkonbus1701 I find it odd that folks here use the term ‘multiple-choice’ quiz or poll to say that the respondents can choose more than one answer. Usage where I attended university and school was that a ‘multiple-choice test’ describes a test where, for each question, you choose one correct answer from a list of possible ones. #Englishdialects

  21. @punkonbus1701 I find it odd that folks here use the term ‘multiple-choice’ quiz or poll to say that the respondents can choose more than one answer. Usage where I attended university and school was that a ‘multiple-choice test’ describes a test where, for each question, you choose one correct answer from a list of possible ones. #Englishdialects

  22. @punkonbus1701 I find it odd that folks here use the term ‘multiple-choice’ quiz or poll to say that the respondents can choose more than one answer. Usage where I attended university and school was that a ‘multiple-choice test’ describes a test where, for each question, you choose one correct answer from a list of possible ones. #Englishdialects