Dialect coach Erik Singer
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Sunday 20 July 2025 23:42:54 GMT
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Neil Doesn’t Know :
When I realized that the reason I didn’t like “axe” was based in racism, I had to do a lot of re-examining, which I’m very thankful for
2025-07-22 04:08:11
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Kendra Weinhoffer Bowers :
I can't tell the difference between the remembers 😭
2025-07-21 00:54:20
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Haidyn :
Thank you!!!! Linguistic prescriptivism is the tool of the elite to designate certain groups of people as unintelligent and less worthy of respect.
2025-07-21 21:49:36
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Cassie 🌈🥁 :
Max Weinreich said it best, “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy.”
2025-07-20 23:49:59
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Matt Lavan :
if you pronounce it hwite i think you're pretentious
2025-07-22 15:55:53
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corlanc :
The ‘white’ example brings Stewie Griffin’s ‘cool hwip’ to mind.
2025-07-23 21:40:10
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Theron Corse :
I use both pronunciations of “either.” It’s situational. Grew up in Georgia, child of two Texans.
2025-07-21 03:56:14
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Binkeystealer :
if youre able to correct them, you probably understood what they said. shared understanding is the fundamental goal of language. if you understand them, they said it correctly
2025-07-26 19:01:01
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brokenjukebox :
Had a teacher who corrected another studying for needed to "axe" a question by saying "Its not axe. It's ask. To which rhe student replied "You obviously understood what I said so can I ASK (they over pronounced it).... you a question.
2025-07-21 00:33:13
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John Daly :
I want to be Erik Singer when I grow up and that is a major problem because I am already 34.
2025-07-21 16:31:59
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Daniel Miller :
When accent man speaks, I listen.
2025-07-21 05:07:51
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Dramalish :
Not enough education happens through the lens of Nelly songs. Well done, sir. 🫡
2025-07-21 07:36:19
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wah :
your attitude is so brilliant, i wish the way people taught english wasn't so derogatory to accents and dialects. the way everyone speaks is beautiful and variable! pidgin and aave and more are real, nuanced ways of speaking!
2025-07-21 00:36:40
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Mary Ennis652 :
Is it weird that I've realized I pronounce either/neither both ways depending on the context? It turns out, it's like preposition phrases that you just know by rote. "Ee-ther you do or you don't" "Eye-ther you're with me or against me." For the record, I'm from Southeastern Mass. My father had an accent sort of like what people parody for Boston. (It actually varies a lot by town & ethnicity.) My mother's father was born in 1885, so she had an older, educated "Yankee" accent
2025-07-24 16:41:02
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tryingtonotthink :
Thank you! Some bird species even have regional accents, and it doesn't make them sound less sweet. The beauty of language is that it's alive and changing!
2025-07-21 00:00:54
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lyrindaniele :
God this is SO refreshing to see. I cannot stand these posts about what is "correct" and "incorrect". If I see another "improper" grammar or pronunciation post I’m going to lose it. It's SO disheartening!!!
2025-07-22 00:32:14
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Prank Sinatra :
I wish everyone had access to gen-ed linguistics classes like I took. It fundamentally changed my perspective on language and removed any judgement on how people communicate
2025-07-22 15:27:04
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ephah :
I never realized that the "ai" pronunciation of either is so uncommon in America. I've always used both pronunciations fairly interchangeably
2025-07-22 04:25:34
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Snizzldy :
Dying to hear you attempt a roadman/South London accent
2025-07-22 05:12:09
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Narayan Venkatasubra :
When you talk of “American and English English” as the main variants with “Ireland, Scotland, and New Zealand” as the others, you are ignoring (accidentally, I hope) the far more numerous English speakers of South Asia and Africa. It seems like there is an unspoken rule that these variants are necessarily wrong when they don’t match the pronunciation of their former colonial masters or the version propagated more recently by American global media organizations. You may not have intended that but the omission stood out to me.
2025-07-21 22:25:24
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The Chris | T2D :
I just realized I say eIther with the I sound at the beginning of a sentence or phrase but either with an e in the middle or at the end.
2025-07-21 00:38:25
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Braxton Hudson :
Hell, I’d extend the idea that non-native speakers’ pronunciation can still be considered correct if they’re still intelligible. Especially considering those “intelligible mispronunciations” can lead to dialectical markers in second (and later) generation native speakers
2025-07-21 00:28:18
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Matthew Stott58 :
still so glad you made it over to this app. I love your videos.
2025-07-20 23:52:32
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ignemferam5 :
mostly valid but aks is wrong
2025-07-26 00:43:28
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Dr. Ceci :
It’s ASK!!! PERIOD!!!
2025-07-25 00:11:18
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