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Zippy's th'

September 15, 2008 @ 1:47 pm · Filed under Linguistics in the comics, Orthography, Phonetics and phonology

Pretty much every time I post a Zippy cartoon (most recently, here), someone writes to ask about Bill Griffith's spelling of the definite article the as th', as in I know th' human being and th' fish can coexist peacefully! The question was asked in the comments on my posting "Are we snowcloning yet?" back […]

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Eye-dialect in the newspapers

May 7, 2008 @ 8:46 am · Filed under Language and politics, Language and the media

I don't have time for a full post this morning, but here's the bare bones of one. (In fact, I develop most posts from an annotated series of hyperlinks like this is going to be, whereas bones don't develop before flesh does; so a better metaphor would be "the columns and beams of one".)

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