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Sources for Scots pronunciation in the Eighteenth Century
Reverse-engineering C18 Scots pronunciation from English grammarians complaining about it. There's a surprising amount of information there.
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John M. Tait's pretty comprehensive (and often very entertainingly angry) site on the development of language standards for Scots. Lots of useful information and references here from this folksinger's perspective.
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"This work aims primarily at giving a list of Scandinavian loanwords found in Scottish literature."
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languagehat.com : Sara’s Family.
How Romance languages differ. The comments have some similar examples for other language families.
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Gregory Szorc's Digital Home | Mercurial's Journey to and Reflections on Python 3
"Succinctly, my experience porting Mercurial and other projects to Python 3 has significantly soured my perceptions of Python. As much as I have historically loved Python - from the language to the welcoming community - I am still struggling to understand how Python could manage to inflict so much hardship on the community by choosing the transition plan that they did." Hear, hear.
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The Obsessively Complete Infocom Catalog
"This site is my attempt to collect every single version of each Infocom game, both source code and compiled game files."
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"CP/Mish is an open source sort-of-CP/M distribution for the 8080 and Z80 architectures". Alternative to ZCN.
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The (well-known?) book that has a nice treatment of reasoning about program semantics, using C++ as the sample language. And now the book is freely available as a PDF! I wonder if we could do a module based on this...
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Language Log » Academic rubbish
This was doing the rounds when I was teaching in Beijing in 2019...
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tasty by Adam Sampson.