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Talk Dialect is a national initiative to capture, preserve, and revitalise the 39 historic county dialects of England as a living digital and onchain record. Built on existing community-driven collections, it will create an open, collaborative online wiki — anchored at talkdialect.co.uk — where users contribute words, phrases, pronunciations, and family sayings in real time.

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@yvanspijk I've been enjoying your language infographics!

Here's a puzzler: do you have any idea where the pronunciation in some US English accents of the word "across" as "acrost" comes from? As in "I haven't come acrost that before?"

What drives such a pronunciation to occur? Is it an #eggcorn? "I haven't come a crossed that before?" (Maybe borrowing from archaic "I'll go a-walking"?)

#linguistics #UsEnglish #LanguageEvolution #EnglishDialects

Cornell University: Amazon’s AI assistant struggles with diverse dialects, study finds. “A new Cornell study revealed that Amazon’s AI shopping assistant, Rufus, gives vague or incorrect responses to users writing in some English dialects, such as African American English (AAE), especially when prompts contain typos.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/19/cornell-university-amazons-ai-assistant-struggles-with-diverse-dialects-study-finds/

I remember two Scottish people asking me for directions (I think) in Portugal after they heard me speaking English. They’re probably still lost out there, twenty years later, confusing the hell outta people. (tyw) #EnglishDialects #Dialects

The freaky thing about this thread is how much of this communication matches my Michigan and mostly Chippewa family’s way of talking. Anytime anyone told a joke, they said “eh,” at the end so the rest of the family knew to laugh. My sweetheart still finds this hilarious and will try to copy it for me when I’m feeling down. #Canadian #Native #EnglishDialects

@punkonbus1701 I find it odd that folks here use the term ‘multiple-choice’ quiz or poll to say that the respondents can choose more than one answer. Usage where I attended university and school was that a ‘multiple-choice test’ describes a test where, for each question, you choose one correct answer from a list of possible ones. #Englishdialects

There are many different dialects in England so delighted to share these art works by Wigan artist Jessica Riley celebrating the Wigan dialect Wiganese. You can find them at Wigan station. #lancashire #englishdialects #typography #mastoart