A Woman and Her Frogs On page 67, Linnaeus mentions a parsonage, and a school that has eight pupils, and a “round Lappish snuffbox made of turned reindeer horn,” and a woman. He says of her: There was a woman here who was dreadfully plagued by frogs she had drunk as spawn in water this […]
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Sounding Gay: Attempt #1
“Sounding Gay: Pitch Properties in the Speech of Gay and Straight Men,” Rudolf P. Gaudio, American Speech, vol. 69, no. 1, Spring 1994, pp. 30–57 (http://dx.doi.org/ 10.2307/455948). (Thanks to Elmore Todman for bringing this to our attention.) The author, at Stanford University, explains: The fact that listeners fairly consistently judged speech as sounding either “gay” […]