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    Originally posted by TonTon View Post
    I mean, "am" and "arm" are different, and the difference sound to me like an r. I don't know what rhotic means, mind.
    When I first saw the tweet I thought to myself that I obviously say the r, sing your same am arm logic but then I realised that I'm saying something closer to aam, with just a little hint of r on the second a as opposed to a stereotypical west country arrm.

    Sound files! https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pro...on/english/arm with UK and US arms.

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      Originally posted by Balderdasha View Post
      It's the difference between ahm and arrrm, or talking like a pirate, yes. Do the words alms and arms sound the same when you say them?
      Totes the sameballs, absolutely. Talking like a pirate makes sense, I will form now on translate "rhotic" to that in my head. And out loud at times, for the lolz.

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        The Xinjiang Data Project has released a map documenting the impact of Communist policies in the region, highlighting the erection of detention camps, and the destruction of mosques and cultural centres.

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          https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...droidApp_Other

          This article has some lovely maps in it.

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            Rhotic means you pronounce the "r" in words like arm, hard, far.
            To me I most associate this (in English) with Scottish people, even though I'm from the South West (just) - too young, apparently, not something I get to say often these days.

            edit: I mean pronounce it as an "r" rather than just using it to change how the vowel sounds, which is how am vs arm in most English (in England) dialects changes.
            I think somebody on here posted a link some months ago (or maybe I just saw it on FB) to a historical dialect map comparison of England, showing how rhotic dialects were common in many parts of England 50 or 60 years ago, but have now more or less died out as the non-rhotic version from the rest of England has taken over.

            Isn't there some US division as well, with the Harvard pronunciation of "I parked my car in Harvard Yard" sounding pretentious to most US listeners? Not sure how rhotism features in that divide.

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              Why would anyone pronounce extra letters? My local accent seems determined to get rid of as many letters as possible. So, "salt" becomes "so", "thoughtful" becomes "forful", and "Do you know what I mean" becomes "narmi?"

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                It's on the previous page.

                The baseball park maps reminded me of the Football Grounds book and Wisden had a book covering all of the 1st class grounds in England and Wales. I'm not sure all the cricket ones had plans though.

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                  The Atlas of Global Surface Water Dynamics has just been published. This is Lake Poyang in China:



                  And this is Lake Razzaza, once, in the days before over-irrigation, Iraq's largest freshwater lake:

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                    Outstanding

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                      Ooh. Magnificent. The GSWE tool that they refer to also seems to be great, at first glance.

                      https://global-surface-water.appspot.com/map

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                        Probably the only suggestion which could have preserved the Austro-Hungarian Empire, though ironically scuttled largely by the Magyars:

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                          Proposed by a Romanian

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                            Never realised Leonese covered such an extensive geographic area in medieval Spain:

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                              Is that saying Aragonese was never spoken in much of Aragon?

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                                Apparently so, Castilian would have been the court language, and the kings spoke Catalan.

                                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aragon
                                Last edited by Diable Rouge; 07-12-2020, 18:35.

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                                  Anyone interested in what Asturiano looks like could do worse than go to its wiki page written in that same language:

                                  https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asturianu

                                  I know people who speak it, though obviously its range is limited. It does have considerable impact on colloquial spoken Spanish in the region, however, such as the use of prounous folliowing verbs; e.g. "gustame" instead of "me gusta"; also, the use of "ye" as a common alternative to "es" (How much is it?" = "Cuanto ye?") or the widespread use of "guaje" (cf David Villa) along with many other words.

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                                    Milan railways mapped through the years

                                    Speaking of which, what's the deal with the bit of Switzerland on Italy's side of Lake Lugano? And apparently there's an Italian exclave there too?

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                                      Originally posted by Ginger Yellow View Post
                                      Milan railways mapped through the years

                                      Speaking of which, what's the deal with the bit of Switzerland on Italy's side of Lake Lugano? And apparently there's an Italian exclave there too?
                                      The boundaries of Ticino arise from wars in the early 1500's - as for the Italian exclave, the issues with that and the lake were only resolved in 1861.

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                                        The IG story is only going to last for a day, but hopefully the link will work.
                                        https://www.instagram.com/stories/th...4643358938566/

                                        Here is the account (The Artist Cartographer):
                                        https://www.instagram.com/theartistcartographer/

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                                          One of those maps that starts out looking like it might be really interesting, but then you realise it's telling you the wrong things.
                                          https://twitter.com/SonerCagaptay/status/1366384920361381889

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                                            This site....oh this site. How things like "Donald Duck" are rendered in different European languages. I may be gone some time. (just got to adjustable spanner - which is translated as "English spanner" in some countries, French in others, and Swedish in some)


                                            https://mapologies.wordpress.com/

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                                              This is more for people who hate maps. It makes me unwell to look at it. The US in "grid form"

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                                                Wow. Colorado and Wyoming look so weird.

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                                                  Less Texas and less Florida, that's got to be good right?

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                                                    https://twitter.com/oregonian/status/1381748704571387904

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