Linguistics: Creole Mailing List, Vernacular, Dialect, Creole Resources
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Lore and Language of School Children
- Review of Iona and Peter Opie's The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Oxford University Press, 1959) originally appeared in The Nation (9 April 1960). Copyright 1960.
- 4/20: The True Story About How Today Became Weed Day - The origin of the term 420, celebrated around the world by pot smokers every April 20th, has long been obscured by the clouded memories of the folks who made it a phenomenon.
MAPS
- A National Map of the Regional Dialects of American English
- Phonological Atlas of North America
- The Portuguese dialects found in Africa, Asia and Oceania can be categorized into Creole and non-Creole forms. The Creole forms were derived from interaction with indigenous languages and are most often considered separate languages because of the important differences between them and the (non-Creole) mother tongue.