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11 Difficult English Accents You WON’T Understand
❓🤨❓ How good are your English listening skills? Can you figure out where these accents are from? Can you understand what they are saying? […]
The Canterbury Tales, or, How Technology Changes The Way We Speak: The London History Show
[…] Sources and further reading: British Library accents and dialects archive: https://tinyurl.com/3zz66jam McGillivray, M. 2013. Canterbury Tales 1 – 541 read aloud: https://vimeo.com/56602418 Robson, D. 2016. Has The Queen Become Frightfully Common? https://tinyurl.com/2p8usbah Strycharczuk, P. et al. 2020. General Northern … Continue reading
Elites, Counter-Elites and Indicators of Revolution: A book review of End Times by Peter Turchin
This video goes through the key arguments in Peter Turchin’s book End Times. This includes discussion of the Matthew Principal, the money pump, and the data science of history from his book. […]
An Offshore Wind Farm in England Hosts Hundreds of Potential Nests for Endangered Kittiwakes | Colossal
JULY 31, 2023 KATE MOTHES All images © Ørsted and Red7Marine With a little help from unique collaborators, kittiwakes can make use of three new structures installed along England’s East Coast. The name kittiwake, which describes two related species of … Continue reading
We must not forget what happened to the world’s Indigenous children | Aeon Essays
oys at Kamloops Indian Residential School, probably before the 1920s. All photos courtesy the Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre at the University of British Columbia, except where noted Thousands of Indigenous children suffered and died in residential ‘schools’ … Continue reading
The insane potential of Pumped Storage Hydropower.
Pumped Storage Hydro had, until recently, been all but written off as a fully exploited dead-end for energy storage expansion. According to new research though, it turns nothing could be further from the truth! It could literally be the lynch … Continue reading
A very normal ball drop led me to infinity
[…] Hi! I’m Jade. If you’d like to consider supporting Up and Atom, head over to my Patreon page 🙂 https://www.patreon.com/upandatom Visit the Up and Atom store https://store.nebula.app/collections/… Subscribe to Up and Atom for physics, math and computer science videos … Continue reading
Surprising Things about American English
Here’s a collection of things I find surprising about American English as a British linguist living in Southern California. I look at vowel mergers in US English, vocabulary and grammar features, surprising pronunciations and hypercorrections. This is the first time … Continue reading
