dialect

This is so cool.

(Found, of course, via the inestimable Making Light.)

elisem pointed to the results on "the thing you might drink water from in a school."

I'm pointing to the correct pronunciation of lawyer. (Lawyer. Law-yer. As in someone who practices LAW. In case you were wondering.)

This lawyer thing has been driving me nuts since moving from east Tennessee to the Upper Midwest, and I'm unspeakably glad to have someone prove it's a regional dialectical variance and not just the fact that I am as crazy as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

Also the dual modals result. I occasionally say "might could," as in, "We might could do that," and my husband has never failed to give me the hairy eyeball for it.

Touch my vitals quickly, lest I die!

Victorian Sex Cries Generator

Both Neil Gaiman and Teresa Nielsen Hayden have linked to this page today, so I'm not being in the slightest original. But I care not.

Warning: the banner ad at the top features naked female breasts, so not exactly work-safe.

bookkeeping

emperor: 783 words, and I've written myself into a corner. Phooey.

Also, it's muggy and I don't want to work. Feeling slightly heatsick. I think I shall go take a cold bath and see if that helps.

*grumble*whine*bitch*sulk*

fair and balanced bookkeeping

Twenty-four people now have fair and balanced listed as an interest.

emperor: 2,284 words. And Chapter Eight's only about half-done. Yee-ha!

Stopping because I will be as much use tomorrow as a screen-door on a submarine if I don't get my insomniac ass in bed.