Marie Bissell

i don't see why they can't do all the track and field events at both olympics. put a coat on

Headline: "Scientists discover emperor penguin colony in Antarctica using satellite images"

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

The end of this process ALWAYS involves treats as rewards as well

My brain does this too, and the only thing that has worked for me is turning every big overhead light on and leaving it until I'm done to motivate/torture myself to go faster

i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable

I still cannot suspend my disbelief that [tʌigəɹ] is attested

Blue Jays, Dodgers cause mass confusion by dressing up as each other for Halloween world series game TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers caused mass confusion across North America today as they each dressed up as the other team for today’s World Series game that coincides with Hal...

Blue Jays, Dodgers cause mass confusion by dressing up as each other for Halloween world series game

Mailer that reads: Molly, Seasons may change, but the need for blood is constant.

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

🚨Postdoctoral fellowship in corpus phonetics / data science for speech with me and Ann Bradlow. Position is open immediately. Apply now! 🚨 Details: faculty.wcas.northwestern.edu/matt-goldric...

I went to a friend's house in high school and there was a man I'd never seen before there. Her mom says he's John Malkovich, her close childhood friend. I who know zero celebrities was like oh neat nice to meet you. Only afterwards did I realize he's famous 😬

if i were designing a thing to stop projectiles in their path i would simply not put a giant hole in it!!!

Email subject saying Strava is acquiring Runna

Boston Accent Tech News

decoy minimal pair?

Paradise....Silo.....Fallout.....there's never been a better time in history to be a tv show about people living in a bunker

Thought-canceling headphones

I am firmly in the [ilæn] camp. I think I must've interpreted it through analogy to LAN the network, like E-LAN.

I can't unsee the [ilɑn] pronunciation now 🫣

Making a Merger: Social and Linguistic Factors in the Low-Back Merger in New Orleans English - Katie Carmichael, Aaron J. Dinkin, 2025 The merger of lot and thought, sometimes called the low-back merger, is a feature rapidly spreading across North America, even in locales historically resistant...

My paper with @ajdinkin.bsky.social on the low-back merger in New Orleans is out in Journal of English Linguistics! The tl;dr is that - LOT/THOUGHT are merging in NOLA & not just because of retreat from marked Yat features like raised THOUGHT. Check it out 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”

University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

Language and Place Cambridge Core - Sociolinguistics - Language and Place

It’s book release day! @perj44.bsky.social & I are so proud of our Cambridge Elements volume on “Language and Place,” which is available for immediate download as an open access PDF as of today 🤩 #linguistics #lingsky

www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Hopefully the first and the last time! 🤞

It’s fun to catch up with friends at #LSA2025 & #ADS2025, and WOTY is always a highlight.

But nothing will beat @mkb933.bsky.social GIVING A TALK ON SOMEONE ELSE’S BEHALF (not a coauthor!), on short notice, while chairing the session, and then taking questions to pass on to authors.

Legendary.

View from behind Oregon receiver and Ohio State DB with the ball bouncing on the OSU DB's helmet

BONK

William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97 He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...

Several copies of "Movement, Economy, Orientation: Twentieth-Century Shifts in North American Language" with Joseph A. Stanley, Margaret E. L. Renwick, and Monica Nesbitt as editors.

Table of contents. 1. Language Change at the Intersections of Movement, Economy, and Orientation by Joseph A. Stanley, Margaret E. L. Renwick, and Monica Nesbitt. 2. Local Attitudes and Dialect change in a Tourist Town by Aaron J. Dinkin. 3. Says No More: Intergenerational Change and the Development of the "New" New Orleans Vowel System by Katie Carmichael. 4. What Kind of Fronting? Leveling of /o/ in Raleigh by Sean Lundergan. 5. Demographic Change, Migration, and the African American Vowel System in Georgia by Jon Forrest, Margaret E. L. Renwick, Joseph A. Stanley, and Lelia Glass. 6. Mass Migration, Social Networks, and Generational Change: The Proliferation of *ain't* for *didn't* in Post-Migration Philadelphia by Sabriya Fisher. 7. Why San Franciscans Used to Sound Like New Yorkers by Lauren Hall-Lew. 8. When *Missoura* got *Warshed* Out: The Rise of Prescriptivist Influence as a Factor Reshaping Pronunciation by Matthew J. Gordon and Christopher Strelluf. 9. Contested Place Construction and "Local" Sound Change by Daniel Duncan.

Oh hey look! After three years of hard work by so many awesome contributors, the folks at the @americandialect.org and @dukepress.bsky.social, the 109th Publication of the American Dialect Society is a real book!

Language and Place Cambridge Core - Sociolinguistics - Language and Place

#linguistics Blue Sky-ers -- check out my book with Paul Reed, 'Language and Place', coming out *OPEN ACCESS* Jan 16, 2025! It's part of the Cambridge Elements in Sociolinguistics series, & offers advice to sociolinguists looking to engage more with place theory www.cambridge.org/core/element...

/ɛ/ in "regular" but inexplicably /eɪ/ in similar items like "lego"

Me subtly convincing all of my socio students to use the matched guise technique and/or priming for their final projects: 😈

new-fave

Check out the docs & intro tutorials for new-fave! #nwav52

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