Linguistics —
While looking for sources on my topic, the BBC English, I can across this article (copied below). Beyond just an interesting history of the letter “yogh,” it is an example of the effects of standardization from the printing press. While the printing press was helpful to spread the written language, it seems to [...]
“With no standard language to act as a control, Middle English illustrates an age when all dialects were equal… There was no hint of a prescriptive attitude. People wrote differently and spoke differently… but they did not write or speak wrongly.”
- Crystal, 215
“For a glorious 300 years, people could write as they wanted to, and [...]
So I personally thought that the chapter we read for Tuesday was kind of confusing in terms of IPA stuff, so I figured it might be good if I uploaded some IPA charts I’ve used in phonology classes before so you guys who haven’t taken a million linguistics classes can see the other forms of [...]