Entries from BatesLine linkblog tagged with 'linguistics'

How far back in time can you understand English?

How far back in time can you understand English? A travel blog of a trip to the English village of Wulfleet becomes a linguistic time machine, illustrating changes in the alphabet, spelling, and vocabulary from AD 2000 back to AD...

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Posted by Michael Bates on February 24, 2026 10:04 AM

How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained | Atlas Obscura

How Capicola Became Gabagool: The Italian New Jersey Accent, Explained | Atlas Obscura "But this gets weird, because most Italian-Americans can trace their immigrant ancestors back to that time between 1861 and World War I, when the vast majority of...

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Posted by Michael Bates on November 5, 2015 5:44 PM

BBC News - German dialect in Texas is one of a kind, and dying out

BBC News - German dialect in Texas is one of a kind, and dying out These are the roots from which my father-in-law sprang. Youngest speakers are in their 60s, the last generation that grew up with German spoken at...

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Posted by Michael Bates on May 18, 2013 2:42 AM

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