It’s time once again to dig into our overflowing mailbag.

  • What’s the difference between a hill, a mountain, and a mount?
  • Why do we seem to add a negative suffix to positive words, and not the other way around?
  • And have you got the boits? What does this even mean?

We’ll find out all this and more on this episode of Talk the Talk.

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Show notes

“Got the boits”

The Dialect of Leeds and Its Neighbourhood
Google Books link

Yorkshore Dialect: Phonology
http://www.yorkshiredialect.com/phonology.htm

On the light fantastic toe

Grammarist: trip the light fantastic
http://grammarist.com/idiom/trip-the-light-fantastic/

Phrase Finder: Trip the light fantastic
https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/trip-the-light-fantastic.html

World Wide Words: Trip the light fantastic
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-tri1.htm

Google Books links: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Portuguese and Brazilian

At what point did Portuguese and Spanish become distinctly separate languages?
https://www.quora.com/At-what-point-did-Portuguese-and-Spanish-become-distinctly-separate-languages

9 Surprising Facts About the Portuguese Language
https://www.listenandlearn.org/blog/9-surprising-facts-about-the-portuguese-language/

Positives and negatives

Rozin, Berman, and Royzman: Biases in use of positive and negative words across twenty natural languages
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02699930902793462?journalCode=pcem20

Words that ought to have opposites, but don’t
https://pocketbookuk.com/2014/02/26/words-that-ought-to-have-opposites-but-dont/

Jack Winter: How I Met My Wife
http://www.ojohaven.com/fun/negations.html

Etymonline: nonchalant (adj.)
https://www.etymonline.com/word/nonchalant

World Wide Words: Disgruntled and gruntled
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-dis1.htm

Anglish

The Anglish Moot
http://anglish.wikia.com/wiki/What_is_Anglish%3F

BLUE-EYED ENGLISH: Speechroom, birdlore and wordstock: white nationalists push for a new language to drive out the impure old.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2018/blue-eyed-english

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