Daniel W. Hieber, Ph.D.
@dwhieb.bsky.social
Diversity linguist and science communicator. Chitimacha, typology, diachrony, documentation, revitalization. I run @linguisticdiscovery.com. 🏳️🌈
What do you call added letters that *do* have an etymological basis? e.g. "debt" was spelled "dette" when borrowed from Old French; later its spelling was changed to reflect its original Latin source "debitum". Is there a term for these post-hoc etymological letters? 2/2
January 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
What do you call added letters that *do* have an etymological basis? e.g. "debt" was spelled "dette" when borrowed from Old French; later its spelling was changed to reflect its original Latin source "debitum". Is there a term for these post-hoc etymological letters? 2/2
I could see this conducted as a longitudinal study examining how individual language use changes at age 16, or as a comparative study between Australian teens and teens from other English-speaking countries of the same age.
(This is not an endorsement of Australia’s social media ban, btw.)
(This is not an endorsement of Australia’s social media ban, btw.)
December 3, 2024 at 4:29 AM
I could see this conducted as a longitudinal study examining how individual language use changes at age 16, or as a comparative study between Australian teens and teens from other English-speaking countries of the same age.
(This is not an endorsement of Australia’s social media ban, btw.)
(This is not an endorsement of Australia’s social media ban, btw.)