Steve Winters

I present, the lenition hypercube

To wit.

My lab group will be participating in this interesting little conference up in Edmonton this weekend:

matips.org/matips2025/d...

We've all been there, dude.

Described in skeet

Described in skeet

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

He didn't slide; he flew.

My sheet music says "Enlargen your world".

I've recently gotten to know someone who universally uses "there is" for both singular and plural nouns. So, rather than saying "there are books in the library" or perhaps "there's books in the library", they say "there is books in the library". Is this the start of a trend?

Overheard in my lab today: "I think L*+H is my favorite pitch accent."

This is like when Lottie informed me that there's a pink lion on the Spanish flag.

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Apple's new AirPods now do live translation of a foreign language. Hmm.

www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Sounds like an implosive to me, but if it is an implosive, then it's a voiceless one, as you've transcribed it. Providing further evidence for the feature [+laryngeally weird].

Fun fact: the road signs on U.S. 93 between Missoula and Kalispell are written in {Salish or Kootenai} and English.

I don't know, man. Who's to say that [i] - [ɪ] aren't a tense/lax pair?

Looks like you're in the Consequences part.

I think you're thinking of the southern pronunciation of "floor".

I actually don't know that one. :-)

Definitely heard [ˈkʰɑtɑɹ] on NPR in Nebraska today.

YouTube video by CTV News Bootleg of Nirvana Calgary show surfaces

Some nice examples of Canadians pronouncing the stressed vowel in "Nirvana" as [æ] here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9u5...

I have long thought that, if that is actually supposed to be sung to the tune of "The Star Spangled Banner", then that is easily the worst song ever written.

Nice to see that they went with [twʌnti] rather than [twɛnti]!

Maybe people are attracted to really strange videos. :-) But now I'm thinking about whether people say "berthing" and "birthing" differently.

And it's voiceless for me everywhere. Somehow I didn't know that other people voiced it until my students pointed that out to me a few years ago.

It would honestly have been pretty hilarious if he had sung [wɪt̪ oɻ wɪt̪aʊt ju], instead!

Should I take it from this that you say [wɪð], rather than [wɪθ]?

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We are hiring! If anybody you know does experimental syntax, feel free to send them our way!

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In my experience, you get a much more positive response from people when you speak their language, no matter how poorly.

Thanks for sharing. I think I'm going to play this for my intro class next week.

What's going on with Rafael Devers? Putting his historic strikeout streak into context Boston's designated hitter has struck out 15 times and has no hits through the first five games. Here's what history tells us about his bad start.

Well, this guy gets paid $27 million a year: www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/...

I think you're probably doing okay in comparison.

Isn't that basically The King of Comedy?