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Mercedes Durham

@drswissmiss.bsky.social

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Multilingual, multicultural, multilovely. Professor of Sociolinguistics at Cardiff University 🇨🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇸 Currently studying varieties of Welsh English She/her

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Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 8d

We don't have tons of responses from Monmouthshire (or Powys) but based on what we have, I'd say it's not used as much as in the Valleys but it's defintely still there. The map shows the rates across all of Wales by county.

Map of Welsh counties showing the rates of bother with compared to spend time with. Yellow and orange show high rates while purple and violet show low rates. The yellow bits are concentrated on the Valleys.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 9d

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 9d

regrettably if you try to point this out online you'll get yelled out by 79208 journalists going OH SO YOU WANT JOURNALISTS TO STARVE??? even if you're, say, a journalist yourself, and point out that while there are clearly no easy answers, the status quo isn't exactly working for society

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Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 9d

Starting off the teaching year as we mean to go on?
Fire alarm (test?) which evacuated the building at 9.30.

Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 11d

I’m confused cos I’ve only heard hazelnut but apparently the U.K. term is filbert. Are they all using it when I’m not in the room?
(Nutella is definitely with hazelnuts)

Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 11d

Same!

Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 12d

I'm still plotting how to get the mainly Valleys form 'bother with' in the sense of be friends with/hang out with into the dictionary. Next time? #WelshEnglish
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Welsh word from Race Across the World added to OED

Fin Gough and Sioned Cray's saying poody confused producers but is in the Oxford English Dictionary.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Adam Golberg @cash4questions.bsky.social · 14d

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Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 14d

Another 2 for me

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 16d

dudes rock

Tumblr post from every-lemon
Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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every-lemon
Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 15d

You're very welcome! I would have contributed sooner, but it's been a super busy month (with two conferences so mostly good busy rather than just start of year busy 😀)

Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 16d

Shana tova!

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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 17d

Anyone shocked that Reform plan to deport immigrants with Indefinite Leave to Remain hasn’t been paying attention.

Next it will be stripping citizenship from dual citizens, then deporting them.

Who do you think Reform are?

This.

This is who they are.

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Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 17d

Good idea!

Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 18d

@brymes.bsky.social are you still using your account? The post content seems to have changed a bit lately...

Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 19d

*hugs*

Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 22d

🤣 of course

Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 22d

Currently listening to the rain pour down. I live in Wales, you say, what do I expect?
The thing is I’m in Amsterdam 🤣

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Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 27d

#linguistics

Grig "Punkie" Larson @griglars.bsky.social · 27d

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Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 28d

I don't think that's so far from where I lived when I was little. It's so upsetting (and I'm not even anywhere nearby anymore)

Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 28d

Student led General Competition for the Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences is open now. Have a look/register for webinar if you're interested in applying for a PhD (or MA + PhD) in sociolinguistics at Cardiff (other subfields, pathways & unis available too) wgsss.ac.uk/student-led-...

Student-led General Competition – Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences

wgsss.ac.uk

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Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 29d

I'm so sorry Kirby

Mercedes Durham @drswissmiss.bsky.social · 29d

After 15 min talks with 5 min for questions at #UKLVC15 last week, next week I get 30 min with 15 min for questions at #LiCLA1 next week. *adds more cool left/right dislocation and fronting examples to slides* lime.meertens.knaw.nl/en/events/li...

Program | Linguistics @ MEertens

lime.meertens.knaw.nl

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A. @nonamename.bsky.social · 29d

German speaking friends, please help me out. How would you translate Marilyn Frye's "double bind" into German? I found "Doppelbindung", "Zwickmühle", but that both sounds profoundly wrong to me. Any ideas?

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Le Devoir @ledevoir.com · Sep 8

Le regard de notre caricaturiste Chloé sur l'actualité du 8 septembre 2025 👉http://bit.ly/47taykH

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Michael Erard @michaelerard.bsky.social · Sep 8

If there were ever a time for white Americans to learn a language besides English and speak it loudly in public, it's now.

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