But then there’s also the old-school, the people who say, “Naw-fuk.” Historically, the Tidewater dialect is non-rhotic, meaning the “r” sound is dropped when it follows a vowel ...
This volume is the first of four devoted to Atticism, a form of linguistic purism that sought to preserve the rules of the 5th-century Attic dialect against the evolution of Postclassical Greek. The ...
People gather to build large fires and dance around them with local music. The name itself has layers —'Babo' means grandmother in the traditional Slavic language that influenced northern Greek ...