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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Norman English #104320 05/28/03 11:09 AM Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK D dxb OP Pooh-Bah OP dxb Pooh-Bah D Joined: Mar 2002 Posts: 1,692 UK I stumbled across this site on Anglo-Norman. Some of it proved quite fascinating. Unfortunately the dictionary part is still under development and has restricted access. Still...do have a browse. http://and4.anglo-norman.net:8082/ Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Norman English #104321 05/28/03 12:08 PM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 W wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel W Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Dear dxb: thanks for that URL. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Linguistic geographers #104322 05/29/03 01:58 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Wouldn't that be a cool thing to be? :-) The notion that the intelligibility of a language might sometimes be impaired by the presence of two or more terms having the same or very similar spelling and/or pronunciation was expounded by the linguistic geographers around the beginning of the twentieth century - the concept of the 'homonymic clash'. The linguistic geographers were working on modern dialectal material, but their idea of the homonymic clash has been applied on occasion to historical linguistics also. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Linguistic geographers #104323 05/29/03 10:40 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Wouldn't that be a cool thing to be? :-) What, a homonymic clash? edit: oops, no *rimshot* for me, Jackie. I didn't read your subject line. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Linguistic geographers #104324 05/29/03 11:00 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 B Bean old hand Bean old hand B Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 1,156 Whew! So I'm not the only one whose brain fails to absorb subject lines. I only go back to them when the post seems like a non-sequitur. Or rather, seems more so than usual. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Linguistic geographers #104325 05/30/03 12:14 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Heh heh heh, my little plot worked, she said rubbing her hands together gleefully... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Linguistic geographers #104326 05/30/03 11:52 PM Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada Z Zed Pooh-Bah Zed Pooh-Bah Z Joined: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,154 British Columbia, Canada to crossthread, you mean "she sang gleefully" Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Linguistic geographers #104327 05/31/03 12:40 AM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky Jackie Carpal Tunnel Jackie Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 11,613 Louisville, Kentucky she sang gleefully Ahem--I am not a cricket, madam. ;-) Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Threaded Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,913 Posts229,347 Members9,182 Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011 Newest Members Ineffable, ddrinnan, TRIALNERRA, befuddledmind, KILL_YOUR_SUV 9,182 Registered Users Who's Online Now 0 members (), 793 guests, and 2 robots. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 29 A C Bowden 21 LukeJavan8 2 ddrinnan 1 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 10,548 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,918 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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