pickFinished Sounds Appealing earlier in the week, overall I really liked it and found it the best of Crystal's series about English. Could have gotten a little more agitated against idiots complaining about dialects on the radio, but 🤷♀️
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Sounds Appealing: The Passionate Story of English Pronunciation | 
pickFinished Sounds Appealing earlier in the week, overall I really liked it and found it the best of Crystal's series about English. Could have gotten a little more agitated against idiots complaining about dialects on the radio, but 🤷♀️
Important questions.
Book, creamy Earl Grey, lemon poppy cake, and a small sugar cookie, in the sun on the roof. ☀
After work hours sun-and-tea on the roof with Dr Crystal
"The articulatory possibilities relating to vertical and horizontal tongue movement are clearly very numerous, and many of the distinctions in regional accents are extremely subtle." such a lovely, dry as fuck, sentence.
I took my book and a cup of tea with me to the roof after I finished work.
Having a hard time reading in my apartment, but it's warm out and the roof patio is open. I'll need some lumbar support if I'm to spend more time here though.
Finished Birth of the Kingdom and got back into phonology. Lucas bought coffee and I have finally perfected my sugar cookie recipe.
I like this one better than the rest of Crystal's series on the history of English (other than chapter 4, which had both the IPA and the diagram of a human voice box, the two reasons I'll never go into linguistics), although allergies and a very low sun prevented me from reading very much on the roof yesterday.
Coffee Works has closed but the other nearby coffee shop is open for takeout and I CAN DRINK COFFEE AGAIN, so I bought some on the way home from a walk, sliced up some of the bread I baked this morning, topped it off with unmeatballs, and went to our building's roof terrace to get started on Dr Crystal's book on pronunciation. Surprising no one, brits are as stupid about it as swedes are. I wish everyone would just shut up & listen to the experts.
A day late #cleaningbookstack. Just things I'm planning on reading over the next few weeks. I work remotely full time, so there actually hasn't been as much dead time as I thought.
... And his from me. Excited to read this as well.
Does anyone know if there's a way of getting your tracking code from Book Depository? #bookdepository
