Google Jeannie Robertson singing MacCrimmon's Lament, in which 'the banshee sings her lonely note of wailing' in sorrow for the passing of the last of the great MacCrimmon pipers. Jeannie (1908-75) was a Scottish traveller, and belonged to a family tradition of amazing singers and musicians. This acapella recording from the late '40s is just about the best thing of its kind in existence.

Anyone from luanar🤔😅who copied the link in the slide?

Regarding the word _ginger_ , one should ALSO observe its use in Cockney Rhyming Slang: _ginger beer_ , as in "He's a RIGHT ginger!"😀

i'm a bit sad I don't get to experience the visual aspects of AI, what I have gathered audibly in the past several years, is just think of AI as a financial calculator

smart girl - AI isn't going away, and already there's almost nothing you can do that doesn't have AI in it. trying to ban it is a bad idea

Hollywood, music, literature, TV etc have kept US and British English remarkably similar. Listen to Afrikaans as a Dutch speaker, and you'll see what it COULD have been like without the centuries of cultural cross pollination. The two (Dutch and Afrikaans) have drifted to the point that they are no longer fully mutually comprehensible.

little brain: Frankenstien is the monster big brain: Frankenstein is the creator galaxy brain: Frankenstein *is* the monster

American pronunciation is creeping into British English, which really pisses me (a Brit) off. REsearch, PAYtriot and HaRASS are just three examples. I still say reSEARCH, PAT(rhymes with HAT)riot, and HArass, but I realise I´m fighting a losing battle.

Of course when you search for the history of a word in use can only find the first published evidence of a words use, especially in Britain because a word can ferment in the villages around the country for a long time before a writer / author gets hold of it and actually puts the word to media and thence makes a “paper trail”. Saw or heard your blog or whatever it was a number of years ago, really enjoyed trying to give my take on the word and their uses! Thanks for that! Cheers Aah Kid! UK Black Country saying from the back garden foundries of the chain makers near Wolverhampton, on my fathers birth certificate his mother is noted as Black smith chain maker as her employment. The Black Country alluded to the huge amounts of dark smoke from the coal fires and small foundries they had!!!

This is such a great interview. I need Dr Barnes to write a nonfiction book.

The best question in this interview about adding diversity is "why bother?" She's conducting a great interview, and it would also be more useful if Mingon had written some fiction. So she admits she hasn't had to learn about dramatization of characters. It's crucial to write with great care when your readers are sensitive. I wonder, though, how this criticality undercuts the powers of story and the realism of life. To be sure, no one is triggered or offended, and that might not be the worst thing to happen to a story. It could lack the zing of injustice. It could bury the drama under an undue amount of care. I think being fair to a character's nature works, to a point. Focus on three things: a person's fears, their dreams, and their secret sorrows. Make those real. The deepest truth is that we're all different. There are stereotypes and tropes because they get repeated; such things also exist because they represent real people, sometimes. I question the idea that "knowing just one person" of an other identity won't be enough. If you are willing to consider that an author can imagine salient aspects of characters, then the first-hand nature of experience is less essential. It's their attention to the details of their craft that matter. Reading books by people who write in their own identity is a good research tip. Let's be clear: our aim is to become a different kind of author than the self-identity writers, filling our literary worlds with people just like us. I hope to become an Anglo male capable of writing about a Latine character. This interview gives us awareness. Buy Alex's book and lean into Chapter 11. Such checklists!

My rule is that if the band name is plural, then I treat it as plural. For example, "The Beatles are releasing remastered versions of their classic albums." But if the band name is singular, then I treat it as singular. For example, "Journey is looking for a new lead vocalist." But there are a few tricky ones like Smashing Pumpkins. Does "Smashing Pumpkins" indicate that the band members are pumpkins, and "smashing" is an adjective describing the kind of pumpkins? ("Those pumpkins are absolutely smashing!") Or is "Smashing Pumpkins" a verb phrase indicating an action? ("John is smashing pumpkins with a hammer.") The way that I interpret the meaning of the name (i.e., is "smashing" an adjective or a verb?) would decide whether I treat the band name as singular or plural. Another tricky one is The Allman Brothers Band. If I use the full name of the band ("The Allman Brothers Band"), then I treat it as singular. But if I use the shorthand name "The Allman Brothers", then I treat it as plural.

Bands are by definition a group of musicians - why would you use singular to refer to a group of people?

What are your favorite words about beer?

Thank you we understand

Language here in Britain tends to be class specific. So working class people would not use the word awfully as it is mostly used by upper class folk who have their own lexicon. Or it used as a parody of upper class talk: I say old bean that’s awfully decent of you.

"Clever" for smart intellectual people has a derisory term "clever dick" for someone who is very smart - usually used in a putdown like "smart *ss" which is American, I believe.

Gobsmacked is alongside "Gobstoppers" which was a consumed child's sweet ( candy) which was a large round sweet that was so large it stopped someone from speaking ( not literally, but nearly!) and a "gob" is a Yorkshire term for mouth, hence: "shut your gob!" when telling someone to stop talking. So "gobsmacked" is saying your ability to talk has been taken away by usually by what you have seen or heard !

I'm sure he knows about US british - but (speaking as a 74 year old native british speaker) I suggest you take his statements with at least a 'pinch of salt' He really is not authoritative about British English. I think he needs to spend time in the UK to understand the use of words and the British culture

Hanged has always bugged me. Same as "Pleaded" not "Pled" guilty.

this is crazy, I've always learned it as a child to say hanged when involving an execution in particular or maybe even a death in general, I don't know who taught me that or maybe I just learned it from books since I did read at a very young age, I always cringe when I hear the latter and news articles or people just casually saying it but it doesn't really bother me but I sometimes correct them as a joke

I always wait for this podcast 🎉

Great voice🔥🔥

한국어로 "친절한 사람이 되는 방법"을 검색 했을때 아무것도 나오지 않아서, 영어로 검색했어요^^ 좋은 영상 감사합니다~

Sounds like the mainstream media

I am more concerned with the invasion of American "English" into the UK.

I say 'pantsless', because it is the absence of pants. But if someone is only wearing pants with one leg I might call that 'pantless'. Pants are a 'pair of pantaloons'.

I found your channel through Jess Zafarris and Rob Watt. I enjoy learning about linguistics and etymology. Subscribed.

Intelligence is attractive and Jess is very intelligent.

Not sure, but I think the incorrect double-is is a dialectical quirk in Minnesota. Hey, I made a double is there, didn't I!?

What a wonderful collaboration! I've been following Ms. Zafarris on Words Unravelled, but it's interesting to hear her expounding on her encyclopedic knowledge of myths and legends in a different arena.

I wonder whether people in the US will start referring to the British "exclamation mark" rather than "exclamation point"...?

Contradiction in Term's. American English, English is English, Americans have Bastadised the Language. Not just English but French as well.

Omg it’s the XKCD guy in real life. The world is not ready.

Living in Britain, I am more used to hearing American accents in videos, films, pop music, podcasts, Audiobooks and TV than in face to face conversation. Consequently, I often scarcely think about it when I hear American accents on e.g. KZbin videos like this one, but I still find it slightly strange and surprising when I actually meet American people face to face and hear them speak.

Cor Blimey Guvnor, 'ave them yanks started speakin' the King's English? Flippin 'eck!

In the UK, the friendly nickname of 'Ginger' is carefully used, as it can somewhat offend a few who suffer by having 'red' hair. Centuries ago domestic staff, the military, prisoners, factory workers, the theatre and movies -- and freely by genuine Cockneys -- more than a small handful of the latter would converse in a rhyming slang -- even when heard casually by an ignorant unknown. A prominent actor having a small but visual mole under his lip, might overhear a senior makeup artist whisper to his junior: "Don't forget to dab some No.2 on that 'Gunga' (Din) under his 'Vera' (Lynn). Or crudely, poor Ertha Kitt would know what was meant when hearing one bloke say to his assistant: "Take over, I'm going off-set over for an Ertha!". As for 'Ginger'. One of our national pop-drinks was commonly called a 'ginger bear' (queer). Now and again, if a crowd-artist goosed a friendly stage-hand, the latter might retort with, 'I always thought you were a ginger!' As for bespoke. No gentleman would even consider ordering any ready-to-wear clothing. Truly a hand cut, sewn and fitted suit was obvious and seen even from yards away from Saville Row. RTW clothing was okay, hopefully, but it fitted only where it touched. Now, it not so any more. The latter clothing by some miracle offers a much better cut, and can be altered with care.

The Frankenstein story comes from the eastern European Jewish golem story. The Rabbi Judah Loew Bezalel (16th century) of Prague built the golem to protect the Jewish citizens from a progrom. The golem escapes from the rabbi’s control, forcing the rabbi to destroy it.

I wonder if the Daily Mail has become a vector for infiltrating British-isms into the US along with the New York Times - it seems to have a large American readership

one language english

Ginger is archaic rhyming slang, short for ginger beer = queer (homosexual).

No-one uses "awfully" - you've been watching too many 50s films. "Awesome" is really annoying though - probably because it is used to describe the most mundane, boring things.