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From: Free Thinking Doggie
A new word, well for me anyway... Isogloss An isogloss, also called a heterogloss, is the geographic boundary of a certain linguistic feature, such as the pronunciation of a vowel, the meaning of a word, or the use of some morphological or syntactic feature. Isoglosses are a subject of study in dialectology, in which they demarcate the differences between regional dialects of a language in areal linguistics, in which they represent the extent of borrowing of features between languages in contact with one another and in the wave model of historical linguistics, in which they indicate the similarities and differences between members of a language family. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isogloss

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A new word, well for me anyway......[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	08:10:19
>> I guess somebody may have done a study on the region of Yorkshire, in which people ... [more]	Free Thinking Doggie	08:53:07
>> No, that is a regiolect. The isogloss is the boundary.	Hamsterwheel	09:32:06
>> That's what I meant. Funny thing accents.....[more]	Free Thinking Doggie	09:43:53

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