Zompist Bboard Again

My long suffering better half and I have been (re-)watching the revived Doctor Who from the beginning in anticipation of David Tennant's return later this year. I have also just finished Stephen Fry's Heroes and have just started Troy . If you want accessible versions of the Greek myths, I highly re...

Thanks everyone, I've read your comments but I'm very short of time at the moment so I'll bookmark them for further consideration.

In one of my three related conlangs, I want it to put numerals after the noun - however the languages are based on IE languages and, according to WALS, there isn't a single language within 4000 miles of the UK that has noun-numeral order (unless you count Arabic which is given by WALS as having &quo...

Initial [s] > [h]

[hal'bɔ:ʊ.na]
halbóuna
"to anoint"

[hal.bɔ:ʊ'na.koʊ]
halbóunakou
"anointed"

Unstressed [ɛʊ] > [œ]

['tie.ðœs]
tiédheus
"A male (dog); marten; (literary) German Shepherd"

Strengthening of onset [ʃ] to [t͡ʃ]

[t͡ʃe'ðɛʊs]
scheeuwoosch
"A male (dog); marten; (literary) German Shepherd"

Don't a large proportion of Brits today have [a] for TRAP, with that pronunciation being found in SSBE, most northern EngE varieties, most Scottish English varieties, and most Welsh English varieties, with actual [æ] being limited to more old-fashioned RP varieties? I'd say [æ] is definitely the TR...

I would guess the suffixing of time in this case only works with the native spring, summer, (fall), winter , and not with the imported autumn . I don't recall hearing falltime either though; but seeing as I only hear fall in American media, maybe I'm just not exposed to it. However, falltime is als...

Speaking as a Brit, we don't use Fall. I think pretty much all Brits would put the article before any season when it follows a preposition, and the zero-article when used more generally: I should have started in the summer, but now I'll start in the autumn vs. Autumn is colder than summer . Somethin...

I don't think any Brit merges hallow and hollow, which to me sound identical in most American pronunciations. However, I think I pronounce it with a [a] rather than a [æ], maybe thats a Welsh accent thing though? Don't a large proportion of Brits today have [a] for TRAP, with that pronunciation bei...

I don't think any Brit merges hallow and hollow, which to me sound identical in most American pronunciations. However, I think I pronounce it with a [a] rather than a [æ], maybe thats a Welsh accent thing though?

I misread that as pooping three times. That's all I have to say.

Wait, do I get this right that the British government just cancelled their planned highest-income-bracket tax cut? A conservative government that can't even successfully pass a tax cut for the rich? What is the world coming to? This probably only happened because they happened to tank the valuation...

I'lln't I'dn't and I'vn't seem like the next logical step. Wiktionary has entries for "I'dn't" (I would not), "I'ven't" (I have not), and "I'mn't" (I am not). It lists them with a nonstandard label. I'd struggle to hear a difference between "I'ven't" and simp...

People like to keep shitting on the British Empire like it was the very image of Evil; as if it did no good - nothing like, say, end slavery. Only after profiting off it for three hundred years. This is literally like getting credit for stopping beating your spouse after being in an abusive marriag...

No, but I feel like these are more common in areas like Lancashire and Yorkshire.

there is reason to dispense with the monarchy today, but that is largely a matter of that King Charles III simply is not the Queen But that's simply because almost everyone alive today has only ever known one monarch - Elizabeth II. There are some who remember her father, George VI. My girlfriend's...

So in essence, you are basing your position in imagery, and ignoring the fact that A) the actual imperialist policies of Britain were largely driven by elected politicians, who are largely and conveniently forgotten by the modern-day public (people seem to forget that Winston Churchill was one impe...

So in essence, you are basing your position in imagery, and ignoring the fact that A) the actual imperialist policies of Britain were largely driven by elected politicians, who are largely and conveniently forgotten by the modern-day public (people seem to forget that Winston Churchill was one impe...

[ɬ] in Welsh also seems to have come out of some bat-shit nowhere place. If I'm remembering correctly the cluster [sl] > [ɬ] may have been first, and then other changes like [ln] > [ll] > [ɬ], and [lt] > [ɬt], and word-initial [l] > [ɬ]. I think it's analogous to the fortis laterals in some Goideli...