Tuesday, December 31, 2013
Twelve Letters That Didn't Make the Alphabet
From the folk at Mental Floss. Read the article here.
Monday, December 23, 2013
Where y'all from?
The New York Times has posted an interesting article that maps out regional differences in speech after a user answers a few questions about pronunciation and usage. it's pretty accurate and it's very interesting from a word snoot perspective. Find "How U'all, Youse and You Guys Talk" here.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
The Word Snoot Mourns
NBC News reports on "uptalk," the practice of ending sentences with verbal questom marks, a practice that's become so common the article concludes "we all talk like Valley Girls now." Sigh.
Read the article here.
Read the article here.
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