Bbc mind your language10/22/2023 ![]() The BBC is getting itself in its usual tangle over race and language. These jolly, affectionate and inventive expressions are known in the linguistics community as "reduplicative rhyming compounds". Mind Your Language Its intriguing watching the changes to the BBC News website report Anas Sarwar wins Scottish Labour leadership race ( via Newssniffer ). ![]() ![]() One of the more interesting aspects of English is the love of identifying action and sound through semi-onomatopoeic phrases. I learned much about the British character through the English language. Just as they collected the rocks, butterflies and ancient antiquities that now fill our museums, so (predominantly between 18) they went around collecting examples of local dialect from every county in England and several in Scotland and even some specific industrial communities such as the mining villages of Yorkshire and Durham. When I examined the wonderful collection of glossaries of county dialects I realised just how monastic was the zeal with which the Victorian lexicographers went about their compiling. ![]() ![]() Take a linguistic tour a holus-bolus fidge-fadge, if you will around some of Britain’s most charming forgotten words
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