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Wilf Popoff

Wasted Words: How Language Sometimes Evolves

juillet 7, 2015 by Wilf Popoff | 5 commentaires sur Wasted Words: How Language Sometimes Evolves

I’m aware of the organic nature of living languages and their need to adapt. If I forget, a glimpse of Chaucer brings me up short. His poetry shows just how much a language can change in six centuries. The remarkable capacity of English to absorb fresh concepts and to express new ideas and technology enables […]

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Frances Peck

What’s That There, Then? More Cape Breton English

juin 16, 2015 by Frances Peck | 21 commentaires sur What’s That There, Then? More Cape Breton English

We take a lot for granted when we’re kids. Maybe most things. Growing up in Cape Breton in the 1970s and 1980s, enforced post-structuralist studies and a career of editorial skepticism still years away, I barely gave terminology a thought. Things had names. You might not always understand them (like boonabrayed), but you didn’t question […]

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Victoria Neufeldt

New Words

janvier 2, 2013 by Victoria Neufeldt | 2 commentaires sur New Words

The end of a year brings thoughts of old and new words—and not only to us word birds, who throughout the year are tuned into what’s coming in and what’s fading out. It’s generally easier to recognize the new than the obsolescent. New words and meanings can virtually explode onto the linguistic scene. Such terms usually relate […]

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