Matt Gordon (not that one though)

I'm reminded of the time our campus rec center held a Mardi Gras party on the first friday of Lent.

I believe there's lots of evidence that Chaucer was an h-dropper, e.g., "myn homcomynge" and h-dropping was found across most of England by 20th century dialectologists, but I've always thought the "an historic" business was a pedant's trick like the "rules" for broad-a in RP.

therapy or linguistics courses?

Which department is hosting your Mizzou talk?

Screen shot of a Bing search for "when did moses live" and the Copilot answer: "13th century BCE" with the explanation "Moses is believed to have lived during the 13th century BCE, with his birth estimated around 1525 BCE and his death around 1406 BCE..."

Copilot introduces the long (& displaced) 13th cen. BCE.

List of teams in the Big 10 with short labels for each including, "founding football institution" for Illinois, "basketball powerhouse" for Indiana, "competitive program" for Iowa, and "colorful uniforms" for Maryland.

These epithets for the teams are mostly innocuous & vacuous in a very genAI way but Maryland's stands out.

TIL the NFL team called the Arizona Cardinals used to be the Racine Normals, which would seem to raise some questions of the that-team-doth-protest-too-much variety

"Is your velum raised or are you just happy to see me?"

AP story on MN shooting describes Cyrillic as "a centuries-old script still used in Slavic countries"

"The federal government may involve in kidnapping cases for several reasons" #CoPilotEnglish

I haven't heard it but I haven't been the Pixburg in years

Today in RIGG AND STOLLEN!

Also: Is “yinz guys” in-bounds, or is it +/- the same thing as “y’all guys”? @anotherlinguist.bsky.social

There were 2 verbs with the root of 'dive' in Old English. One was strong (ablaut) and the other weak ("regular"). The semantic distinction between them was lost and the two verbs collapsed into one with both past tenses survive.

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AI summary of Epic of Gilgamesh showing 2025 publication date and listing the author as Gilgamesh.

New dating/authorship info drops! Thanks Co-Pilot!

a box of cereal called "Crispy Hexagons"

At least USA PATRIOT Act serves as an example of painful backronymy

Cloroxymorons?

Nailed it!

Is it now pushing ads for travel between New Zealand and Australia?

I’m looking for interview participants for my dissertation research!🤓

I am conducting a research study on Asian migrants’ dating and marriage experiences and how these are influenced by US immigration policies.

Please share the flyer with those whom you think might be interested!

A student told me today that they used ChatGPT to explain my instructions on an assignment. I had bullet-pointed paragraphs explaining what to do in each of 3 parts of the project, and ChatGPT produced a longer list of bullet points, paraphrasing each sentence.

An alcove in a hallway containing a wooden shelf with a vertical divider. The space seems to have once hosted pay phones or other landline phones.

How many of my students could explain this architectural "feature" in the hallway outside our classroom? Only 1, a 60-something retiree. Best guess: "a voting booth??"

The author needs to go to HEL (History of the English Language)

"After the 2nd edition came out in print in 1989 and like Dylan before them, the OED went electric." For the first time in 20 years of making this joke, my students got it. #mostofmyhumorisacompleteunknowntomystudents

Yes, i realize that 'stuff' is ultimately a French borrowing but I'm hoping the powers that be won't notice.

To comply with the EO declaring English the official language, I've decided to change the title of my sociolinguistics class to the etymologically pure "Tongue Stuff with Friends"! So far, registration for next semester is doing great.

I'm officially "my dad was a student of yours" old!

And better discounts on gas

"Republicans have expressed interest in trying to define fetal liability legislatively sometime during this session." Local story about efforts to defy voters & re-ban abortion contains a fun typo (at least I hope it's a typo).