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Now, the most authoritative dictionary on pronunciation is John Wells' Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, which says: fjuː hwjuː — and non-speech sounds such as ʍ, ʍu, ɸ, pɸː, y̥u̥

petaloso: How an eight-year-old boy invented a new word

@Jasper They're two independent clauses in asyndetic coordination.

I appreciate the well-wishing pings I've been getting :-)

There was a four-year stretch where PulseAudio broke in a different way every single update. That was the best part, probably.

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Now, this sort of correspondence is very rare when two forms are not etymologically related. It's called suppletion, and it usually only occurs with the most common, most irregular verbs in the language, verbs like go and be.

We might be able to think of scholarly as a haplogical form of scholarlily.

Hope that wasn't too sillillilly of me.

Nonce morphology of the day: You snooze, you lose / Well I have snost and lost

Some species are gonochoristic, with separate male and female snails.

Sometimes the pursuit of perfection leads you away, not towards. I have that problem.

@Man_From_India Further reading: ling.ohio-state.edu/~levine.1/publications/…

But you do sometimes find them with measure expressions:

What? Governments don't base their policy on discussions in Language Overflow? We might have to rethink our whole approach.

That sounds like plenty of time. I'll wait until 11pm on Dec 31, 2019 to get started.

Word of the day: barge

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