Hindi is not weird.

Looks like a fascinating exhibition at the British Library.

but other languages can.

The International Phonetic Alphabet for beginners.

对 or 不?

An archeological and linguistic enigma.

Changing words.

Norms.

More about this great construct.

Nifty though incomplete.

Something a bit different!

Falklands, St Helena, Tristan da Cunha

Cool.

Fewer consonants in the jungle.

Maybe not.

Decline of a Lingua Franca: The Story of Aramaic

Asya Pereltsvaig @LangsOfTheWorld has a good rant.

Further down the Atlantic coast...

Old news, but fun.

@LangsoftheWorld reports.

Fascinating!

Combien de sous sont ces saucissons-ci? Ces saucissons-ci sont six sous.

Probably not Vodaphone.

*Not* related to "quote".

The New Yorker spoofs the dialect quiz.

Strangely I appear to be from somewhere near the Gulf Coast.

Bear. Church. Beer. Rose. Pineapple. Apple. Tea. Cucumber. Orange.

How the Arabic names for stars came to be used by us.

@feorag looks at words for "beer".

Do *you* pronounce "Mary", "marry" and "merry" differently? (I do!)