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Brook, creek, stream, rill

May 26, 2020 @ 4:08 pm· Filed by under Language and geography

Twitter thread on small waterway names:

 

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Arrogant squid of North Texas

February 2, 2020 @ 11:03 pm· Filed by under Language and geography, Lost in translation, Signs

Joe Tello sent me this funny sign:

The line of Chinese at the top says "àomàn yóu 傲慢鱿" ("arrogant squid").  That's puzzling enough by itself, but I actually found the English to be even more mystifying.  It seems to be telling us that this place is in the East Location of the Southwest District of North Texas.  When I try to figure out on a map of Texas where that would put it, my imagination fails me.

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America as a multilingual nation

January 23, 2020 @ 12:34 pm· Filed by under Language and ethnicity, Language and geography, Language and society

"This map shows the most commonly spoken language in every US state, excluding English and Spanish", by Andy Kiersz and Ivan De Luce, Business Insider (1/18/20):

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